This is a macOS app written in Swift / SwiftUI / Metal that implements a simplified version of HDR+, the computational photography pipeline in Google Pixel phones. You can read more about HDR+ in Google's paper Burst photography for high dynamic range and low-light imaging on mobile cameras.
If you are a researcher or you prefer Python/PyTorch, I suggest you check out hdr-plus-pytorch.
I took a burst of 35 images at ISO 12,800 on Sony RX100-V and boosted it by +2EV. Here's a comparison of a single image from the burst vs. a merge of all the images.
To test motion-robustness, I compared a raw image, output from the app using Robustness
set to High
, and output from the app using Robustness
set to Low
. You can compare my results to Google's by opening Figure 6 in their paper. Image taken from Google's HDR+ dataset licensed under CC BY-SA.
For more examples, please visit burst.photo/gallery/.
To process a burst of DNG images, simply drag-and-drop them into the app. You can read more at burst.photo/help/.
You can download the app from the Mac App Store or as a GitHub release.
- DNG support
- robust merge
- mutli-threaded image loading
- align+merge running in pure Metal
- Fix progressbar getting stuck loading the first image
- ARM support – requires recompiling Adobe DNG SDK
- 32-bit output - how can this be achieved in Adobe DNG SDK?
- super-resolution
Please feel free to contribute to any of these features or suggest other features.
This product includes DNG technology under license by Adobe.