Have you ever noticed that you see much more details when looking at a scene by eye than when seeing a photo of the same scene? If not, it’s just because it’s too common to be noticed. Even having, physically, a lower dynamic range than a camera, human eyes see more.

Almalence Dynamic Range Optimizer optimizes the usage of dynamic range of 8-bit images to make the most of image details visible. DRO uses a technique similar to tone mapping, exploiting the peculiarities of human vision. DRO can be used either for optimal conversion of RAW images into 8-bit RGB/YUV images or for improvement of existing 8-bit images.

DRO is easy-to-integrate, extremely fast solution that automatically improves the images in 100% cases and can substitute HDR in most of cases.

Comparing to existing solutions aiming to provide similar improvements of digital imaging, Almalence DRO:

• is faster by the order of magnitude, which allows to use it in mobile devices, for both still images and video
• provides better quality, mainly due to absence of noise amplification in shadows
• improves both shadows and highlights

DRO can be integrated in ISP, camera drivers or applications.

Some comparison examples are available on our site: DRO_examples_Almalence_site.zip (33 MB)

Demo application is available upon request.