HDR camera for Android Download
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Real life scenes often have a wide range of light
intensity, which cannot be captured by a camera. In a photo of such a scene the
bright areas look washed out and everything in shadows is pictured as a black
spot with no details. The HDR technique allows you to capture details in bright
and dark areas and have them merged in a single photo. HDR photography is
widely adopted by professional photographers. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an
HDR in mobile phones? The problem is that HDR requires taking several
differently exposed images in series, which must be precisely aligned and then
fused. In order to be usable for real life scenes, the HDR feature should
include moving object detection and hand shake compensation to avoid or minimize
the ghosting in the final image. That requires a lot of computational resources
and makes a challenge even for professional desktop HDR software.

Almalence has brought its expertise in
professional HDR software to mobile phones. Our HDR fusion algorithms
compensate hand shaking and detect moving objects in the scene, suppressing
ghosting artifacts. At the same time, the algorithms are quick enough to
provide comfortable processing time on mobile devices.

