Computationally efficient tone-mapping of high-bit-depth video in the YCbCr domain
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Abstract
High dynamic range (HDR) video content is able to provide superior picture quality. This is because the representation of HDR signals requires more bits than the 8-bit low dynamic range (LDR) video. Tone-mapping is the process that converts HDR to LDR signals. Most tone-mapping methods are derived only for the luminance component. This mapping function is then used in each of the R, G and B components to generate the LDR color image. This color tone mapping correction approach, however, cannot be directly applied to most videos since they are usually encoded in the YCbCr color space. This paper addresses this problem and proposes a tone-mapping method that is applied directly on the YCbCr signals. Experimental results show that the Cb and the Cr signals generated by our method are almost identical to those produced with the conventional pipeline up to round-off errors, with average PSNR at about 55 dB and average SSIM at 0.991. By avoiding all the round-off errors introduced in the conventional method, our approach provides a more accurate LDR picture. Moreover, the proposed solution has significantly lower complexity because it bypasses the processes such as color space transformation and up-sampling which are required by the conventional method.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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