Hugin Tutorial: Creating HDR Images with Enfuse & Hugin

In this short tutorial I'll show how to create exposure fusioned images (and HDR along with them) with Hugin.

About exposure fusion: http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~tmertens/papers/exposure_fusion_reduced.pdf

"Enfuse merges overlapping images using the Mertens-Kautz-Van Reeth exposure fusion algorithm. This is a quick way to blend differently exposed images into a nice output image, without producing intermediate HDR images that are then tonemapped to a viewable image. This simplified process often works much better than the currently known tonemapping algorithms.

Enfuse can also be used to build extended DOF images, by blending a focus stack."

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hugin
• tutorial
• hdr
• panorama
• blending
• enfuse
• exposure
• fusion
• tufuse
• ptgui
• autostitch
• hdri
• high
• dynamic
• range

[czeque]

Thanks!

But what's the second file (_hdr), that just looks completely black?

[tunnarit]

@czeque It's the HDR file itself in 96 (32 bits per channel) bit linear colour space, special programs need to be used to tonemap them to something viewable, like Luminance HDR or Photomatix. Usually I just work with enfused files (_enfused in file name) because it saves time because there's no need to tonemap.

[Goobers200]

I appreciate the time and effort you put into this tutorial, but for someone new to hugin it didnt help at all, you were doing it so fast i couldnt keep up and when i paused to video to read and watch the screen and text, the video was so blurry i couldnt see the text from hugin even on 720p.

[redorealtor]

No sound and it moved around way too fast. maybe I am slow, but I will not watch a tutoral without sound.

[gychang00]

your video will be much more effective if voice is enabled.

[AreaQNH870]

@unicornsetu No sound.

[lardansfrancois]

Great tutorial, thanks.

Little problem though, it works with me only if I don't hit the "align" button... which is annoying !

if I do, the result get completely deformed ! did I miss a step somewhere ?

[unicornsetu]

No sound?