The Art of Making Better Pixels: High Dynamic Range Display Concepts and Technologies
Instructor: Timo Kunkel, Dolby Labs, Inc.
Level: Introductory
Duration: 2 Hours
Course Time: 

     New York: 21 October 2021, 12:45  - 15:00
     Paris: 21 October 2021, 18:45  - 21:00
     Tokyo: 22 October 2021, 1:45 -04:00

Course Prerequisite: No direct previous knowledge is required, but a basic understanding of traditional display and imaging concepts is beneficial.

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.

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.

Intended Audience: anyone working in image display related fields such as display design, content creation, image transport and broadcast, and vision science.

Timo Kunkel is a senior color and imaging researcher in the CTO office of Dolby Labs, Inc. Over the past 15 years, he has been investigating the technical and perceptual aspects of HDR imaging with a focus on advanced display approaches and has been involved in developing the core concepts of what is now Dolby Vision. Kunkel is a member and technical expert with the ICC, SID ICDM, and IEC TC100 & 110. He has worked as a professional architecture and landscape photographer in Europe and the US, winning several prizes with images combining HDR and computational photography aspects. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Bristol, UK, and a MSc from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

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