Preface

Producing truly realistic video is widely seen as the holy grail toward further improving the quality of experience for end users of multimedia services. Additionally, numerous professional applications can be made possible only by the use of video signals with properties beyond the widespread, but very limited, parameter space, such as standard dynamic range. Several new approaches have been proposed and often successfully implemented in the history of the applications that use video data. Currently investigated directions include high spatial resolution, high frame rates, wide color gamut and high-bit-depth rendering.

The human visual system is able to perceive a wide range of colors and luminous intensities, as present in outdoor ...

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