Section: New Software and Platforms

PFSTools

Keyword: HDR Merging, radiometric calibration, HDR tonemapping

Functional Description

The pfstools package is a set of command line programs for reading, writing, manipulating and viewing high-dynamic range (HDR) images and video frames. All programs in the package exchange data using a simple generic high dynamic range image format, pfs , and they use unix pipes to pass data between programs and to construct complex image processing operations.

pfstools comes with a library for reading and writing pfs files. The library can be used for writing custom applications that can integrate with the existing pfstools programs. It also offers a good integration with high-level mathematical programming languages, such as MATLAB or GNU Octave. pfstools can be used as an extension for MATLAB or Octave for reading and writing HDR images or simply to effectively store large matrices. The pfstools package integrates existing high dynamic range image formats by providing a simple data format that can be used to exchange data between applications. It is accompanied by the pfscalibration and pfstmo packages.

• Participants: Rafal Mantiuk, Ivo Ihrke

• Contact: Ivo Ihrke

• URL: http://pfstools.sourceforge.net/