Sacramento May Section Meeting
Let’s Talk High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut
Description
In this month’s meeting, we will take a deep dive into the world of HDR and WCG.
Topics include:
* What is dynamic range?
- HDR Photography vs HDR Video
- What kinds of images benefit from HDR?
- What is color gamut?
- What kinds of images benefit from WCG?
- What is video? (How does a camera make video?)
- Optimizing the Gamma curve
- Optimal: PQ
- Compatible: HLG
- Making an HDR Test Pattern
- Convert color space, or redesign?
- Revealing the pitfalls of HDR/WCG
- The OOTF and why you should care
About the speaker: Norm Hurst is a Senior Principal Research Engineer with SRI International. He has been staring closely at TV pictures for over three decades. The projects he has worked on include D-Cinema watermarking, CCD camera simulations, Sarnoff MPEG Compliance Bitstreams, and the DirecTv and Grand Alliance prototype MPEG encoder/decoders. Lately he has been developing HDR/WCG test patterns to guide us through the jungle of formats that digital video has brought us.
He is a SMPTE fellow and holds over 35 patents. He also received the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal Award and The Camera Origination and Imaging Medal Award.
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