在過去，拍好一張照片需要很多的技巧與很好的設備，幸好現代科技能夠輕易地幫我們解決這些事情。如果因為錯誤的相機參數設定，拍了一張不理想的照片，照片本身可能會顯得沒有對比且顏色不飽和。影像增強的方法可以幫助我們解決這樣的窘境，使得照片回復他們該有的對比跟顏色。然而，影像增強不是萬能的，如果照片太多過曝或是過暗的區域，造成原因通常是相機的硬體限制，這樣的影像增強是救不回來的。所以我們需要高動態範圍(High Dynamic Range)影像技術來彌補這樣的情形。 有很多種方法可以產生一張HDR影像，大致上分為兩種，一種為tone reproduction，另外一種為exposure fusion，但較少的論文會去探討產生出來的HDR影像，跟人們對照片的喜好關係，換句話說，比較少的論文會去探討人們喜歡那種類型的HDR影像。在此篇論文中，我們用前景像素，找出HDR影像中的細節資訊，找到有細節資訊的區域後，再整合用色彩評估，去評估HDR影像。我們也設計了一些問卷，用了兩種方法，多選一、二選一，調查人們對HDR影像的喜好，再論文的後半部，相關係數實驗驗證了我們的方法與調查問卷的結果，我們的方法產生的指標，與調查的結果具有高度的相關性，換句話說，我們的指標可以預測人們對HDR影像的喜好。 ;Shooting a good picture requires a lots of photography skills and good equipment. Thankfully, modern technology can make up for non-professionals. If someone taking a picture using the wrong exposure setting or the camera is not good enough to reproduce the scene, the photo produced would be in low contrast and no color. Thankfully, image enhancement technique can retrieve the lost detail and color information. However, image enhancement cannot deal with image that has lost almost all detail information. HDR technique is a solution to this kind of problem. There are many ways to generate a HDR image. They are mainly about how to do tone reproduction or how to do the exposure fusion. Others are focus on removing ghost effect. However, there are rarely studies which are related to people′s feeling and the preferences to the HDR images. In other words, we have few research about what kinds of images (HDR images) are the good images depend on subjective feeling while we have many ways to generate all kinds of different HDR images. Hence, in this paper, we want to find out whether there is an index can reflect subjective feeling to HDR image. The method we proposed is call S_fpg. The foreground pixel used in image enhancement to evaluate the performance is used to find out the detail region of a HDR image because image enhancement and HDR are basically the same thing-retrieve the detail information from scene to image. Once finding out the foreground, the saturation measure is evolved to see the colorfulness of HDR image.
A subjective study about HDR images preferences survey is conducted using online survey system. We conduct two kinds of survey to get the preferences data. One is choose-the-best-one and the other is two alternative forced choice. The reason we do choose-the-best-one test is that the conventional mean opinion score survey cause too much cognitive load to the testers. Furthermore, the score testers graded doesn’t have a standard. Ranking the preference image is another method. However, the testers have difficulty in ranking the image that they don’t like. Hence, we change the survey method to choose-the-best-one which significantly reduce the cognitive load to testers. Two alternative forced choice is suggested to be more intuitive and hence, we conduct another survey using 2AFC. Both of two results are consist with our index. The index is validated by correlation coefficient with subjective test using Spearman′s rank correlation coefficient and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results show that our method is highly correlated with subjective preferences comparing with other objective measure metrics.
