John J. McCann & Alessandro Rizzi 
The Art and Science of HDR Imaging 

Rendering High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenes on media with limited
dynamic range began in the Renaissance whereby painters, then
photographers, learned to use low-range spatial techniques to
synthesize appearances, rather than to reproduce accurately the
light from scenes. The Art and Science of HDR Imaging
presents a unique scientific HDR approach derived from
artists’ understanding of painting, emphasizing spatial
information in electronic imaging.

Human visual appearance and reproduction rendition of the HDR
world requires spatial-image processing to overcome the veiling
glare limits of optical imaging, in eyes and in cameras.
Illustrated in full colour throughout, including examples of
fine-art paintings, HDR photography, and multiple exposure scenes;
this book uses techniques to study the HDR properties of entire
scenes, and measures the range of light of scenes and the range
that cameras capture. It describes how electronic image processing
has been used to render HDR scenes since 1967, and examines the
great variety of HDR algorithms used today. Showing how spatial
processes can mimic vision, and render scenes as artists do, the
book also:

* Gives the history of HDR from artists’ spatial techniques to
scientific image processing

* Measures and describes the limits of HDR scenes, HDR camera
images, and the range of HDR appearances

* Offers a unique review of the entire family of Retinex image
processing algorithms

* Describes the considerable overlap of HDR and Color Constancy:
two sides of the same coin

* Explains the advantages of algorithms that replicate human
vision in the processing of HDR scenes

* Provides extensive data to test algorithms and models of vision
on an accompanying website

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John J. Mc Cann, Consultant, Mc Cann Imaging, USA
John Mc Cann received a B.A. degree in Biology from Harvard University in 1964. He worked in, and later managed, the Vision Research Laboratory at Polaroid from 1961 to 1996. He has studied human color vision, digital image processing, large format instant photography and the reproduction of fine art. His 120 publications have studied Retinex theory, color from rod/Lcone interactions at low light levels, appearance with scattered light, and HDR imaging.
He has been a Fellow of the Society of Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) since 1983. He is a past President of IS&T and the Artists Foundation, Boston. In 1996 he received the SID Certificate of Commendation. He is the IS&T/OSA 2002 Edwin H. Land Medalist, and IS&T 2005 Honorary Member, and is a 2008 Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is currently consulting and continuing his research on color vision.

Alessandro Rizzi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Professor Alessandro Rizzi holds a degree in Computer Science at University of Milano and received a Ph D in Information Engineering at University of Brescia (Italy). He taught Information Systems and Computer Graphics at University of Brescia and at Politecnico di Milano. He is currently an assistant professor teaching Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, and senior research fellow at the Department of Information Technologies at University of Milano. Since 1990 he has researched in the field of digital imaging and vision. His main research topic is the use of color information in digital images with particular attention to color perception mechanisms. He is the coordinator of the Italian Color Group
Conference Chair of Color Conference at IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, and a principle organizer of European Marie Curie Project CREATE.