HDR resources

Some HDR-related projects, tutorials, images, resources:

• HDR image gallery - several HDR images, free to download and use
• HDR at MPII - HDR-related projects at the Max-Planck-Intitute for Computer Science
• HDR MPEG - backward compatible high dynamic range video encoding
• HDR VDP - visible difference predictor for HDR images
• HDR Labs - HDR blog and many useful resources

HDR software

• FovVideoVDP - Video/image quality metric for HDR.
• PU21 - simple image quality metrics for HDR images/video (extends PSNR and SSIM to work on HDR images).
• Matlab HDR toolbox - exposure alignment, color space transformations, compression, inverse tone mapping, environment map manipulation, tone mapping operators and more. Accompanies the book "Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging: Theory and Practice" by Francesco Banterle, Alessandro Artusi, Kurt Debattista, and Alan Chalmers.
• Luminance HDR - GUI application that combines pfstools, pfstmo and pfscalibration (Linux and Windows)
• CVL and cvtool - CVL is a library and cvtool is a command line program for image and data processing using GPU. Since it can read/write pfs-streams, cvtool can be used together with pfstools.
• Radiance package - includes programs for tone mapping, scaling, flipping and rotating HDR images
• OpenEXR - a library for handling OpenEXR files and viewer for HDR images (exrdisplay)
• exrtools - can blur, tone map and convert HDR images in OpenEXR format
• Photosphere - an HDR Photoalbum software for Mac OS X