High Dynamic Range Video Encodings

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With increasing computing power, improving storage capacities, and the development of wireless and wired network systems, the role of video-based applications is expanding. Video has become common in multimedia messaging, video teleconferencing and telephony, video streaming, and TV signal broadcasting. Although in the near future, 8-bit-color-per-channel video-processing pipelines will continue to dominate in the vast majority of these applications, the demand for higher bit-depth capabilities is growing in video applications that are quality-demanding and precision-sensitive.

For example, imaging sensors in medical applications routinely produce image streams of 10-bit and higher precision, which is critical ...

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