The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 16, 2007 8:22 UTC (Fri) by wstfgl (subscriber, #42907)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux by scarabaeus
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

> Expose the sensor to light. For each pixel, measure the time in
> milliseconds until the pixel is fully saturated

There's quite a bit of research currently in progress to develop cameras
that do just that (Google for "Address Event Representation Camera") - I
remember a couple of my engineering friends did their honours thesis on
the topic.

AFAIK, the technology is better than regular CMOS imagers in terms of
power consumption, but tends to have a lower resolution and dynamic
range - good for embedded devices, not so good for photography. Also since
the time available for each frame needs to be bounded, you tend to get a
lot of pixels 'squashed' against either the upper or lower bound of the
intensity range.

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