Robust generation of high dynamic range images

A robust scheme is proposed to generate an anti-ghosting high dynamic range (HDR) image from a set of low dynamic range (LDR) images with different exposure times. Three major contributions of this paper are 1) a bi-directional prediction method; 2) an adaptive threshold for the classification of pixels; 3) Bayes estimator based methods for the on-line updating of predicted values and the synthesis of pixels to fill in the regions of moving objects to preserve their dynamic ranges. The proposed scheme is suitable for both static and dynamic scenes.