Poisson compositing

Abstract

Most of the real world scenes have a very high dynamic range. However the common capture and display devices can handle only a limited dynamic range. General approach to solve this problem is to use multi-exposure images and composite them in the irradiance domain to get a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image [Reinhard et al. 2005]. The generated image will be able to represent the real world scene faithfully. However, it needs to be tone-mapped to a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image for visualization in common displays and printers. Generation of the high-quality LDR image of the scene directly from multi-exposure images even in the absence of any knowledge of camera response function and the exposure settings of the camera is of interest to graphics community. We propose a gradient domain compositing technique to solve the above problem and call it Poisson Compositing. We compare the proposed methodology with similar existing techniques and show that the proposed method is very fast and accurate.