Reinhard E. High Dynamic Range Imaging. Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting

Morgan Kaufmann, 2010. — 673 p.After the final draft of a manuscript is handed to the publisher, a large amount of work goes on. First, the book is copyedited and then typeset, proofs are created and vetted, and then the printer gets to produce the actual copies. About three quarters of a year passes between the delivery of the manuscript and the first copies appearing in shops and online.
The first edition of this book appeared late 2005. At that time, the first pieces of essential research on topics in high dynamic range imaging had already started to appear; before the book came out, and after we sent the final draft to the editor. This is testament to the fact that high dynamic range imaging is a fast moving field indeed.
Although the first edition has served its purpose well, it soon became clear that an update would eventually become necessary. Not only has new work appeared on well established topics such as tone reproduction but also several new topics have emerged that consequently were not covered at all in the first edition. These include inverse tone reproduction, visible difference predictors, and HDR video encodings. We have added a chapter for each of these to this second edition. We also welcome Wolfgang Heidrich and Karol Myszkowski to the author team. They have done a tremendous job creating new chapters and have also helped update the manuscript throughout.
A thorough restructuring of the tone reproduction chapters has also become necessary to account for new work in this area, to provide an exposition that is less an enumeration of existing operators, and to offer a better exposition of the underlying thoughts and ideas. Updates to all other chapters have made the book up-to-date as of this writing. Most images have been replaced with better or more visually appealing examples.
We expect that between delivery of the final manuscript and you opening this book for the first time, new research will have advanced the field of high dynamic range imaging once more. In the mean time, we hope that this work may serve as a reference for this exciting discipline called high dynamic range imaging.Light and Color
High Dynamic Range Image Encodings
High Dynamic Range Video Encodings
HDR Image Capture
Display Devices and Printing Technologies
Perception-Based Tone Reproduction
Tone-Reproduction Operators
Inverse Tone Reproduction
Visible Difference Predictors
Image-Based Lighting