Applications of digital micro-mirror devices to digital optical microscope dynamic range enhancement.

In this paper, we present a method of using digital micro-mirror devices to dynamic range enhancement of a digital optical microscope images. Our adaptive feedback illumination control generates a high dynamic range image through an algorithm that combines the DMD-to-camera pixel geometrical mapping and a feedback operation. The feedback process automatically generates an illumination pattern in an iterative fashion that spatially modulates the DMD array elements on pixel-by-pixel level.

Minimal-bracketing sets for high-dynamic-range image capture.

This paper considers the problem of high-dynamic-range (HDR) image capture using low-dynamic-range (LDR) cameras. We present three different minimal-bracketing algorithms for computing minimum-sized exposure sets bracketing of HDR scenes. Each algorithm is applicable to a different HDR-imaging scenario depending on the amount of target-scene-irradiance information and real-time image processing available at the time of image acquisition.