The Art of Making Better Pixels: High Dynamic Range Display Concepts and Technologies
Instructor: Timo Kunkel, Dolby Laboratories, LLC
Level: Introductory
Duration: 2 hours plus 15 minute break. After the class, adjourn to Zoom to join the instructor and other students in a discussion of the class.
Course Time:
    New York: Thursday 12 November, 18:30-20:45
    Paris: Friday 13 November, 00:30-02:45
    Tokyo: Friday 13 November, 08:30-10:45

Benefits:
Attendees will be able to:

• Understand how the human visual system perceives the physical world around us and how HDR display technologies cater to this.
• Assess how we can display a plausible depiction of the ‘real’ physical world and how we convey artistic intent.
• Identify the importance of a display’s white and black levels, its tone response curve, and quantization steps as well as its color volume.
• Explain the fundamentals of common HDR and Wide Color Gamut display technologies such as full array dual modulation, OLED, Quantum Dot, and Mini/MicroLED- based display.
• Differentiate the considerations for creating compelling content that lives up to the capabilities of HDR displays javascript:void (0).

Intended Audience: anyone working in image display related fields such as display design, content creation, image transport and broadcast, and vision science. No direct previous knowledge is required, but a basic understanding of traditional display and imaging concepts is beneficial.

Course Description:
The field of High Dynamic Range imaging or HDR was coined more than 20 years ago and has been evolving ever since. Over time, various building blocks have been designed that are suitable to form perceptually-correct, artistically-compelling, and technologically-efficient HDR imaging systems. Now, as those technologies are implemented into an increasing number of mainstream devices, it is important to keep track of several key perceptual and technological concepts in order to avoid pitfalls that can impact image fidelity when processing, transmitting, and displaying HDR imagery. This course is intended as an introduction into HDR display systems and its related imaging pipelines.

Timo Kunkel is a senior color and imaging researcher in the CTO office of Dolby Labs, Inc. He has been working with HDR imaging concepts for more than 15 years and his main areas of interest are advanced display and imaging technologies and how we can continue bringing them closer to human perception. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Bristol (UK) and a MSc from the University of Freiburg (Germany).

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