HDR Guidelines

About this collection

HDR Guidelines is a specific area of Best Practices & Guidelines, part of Standards & Industry, and includes 20 curated resources.

Resources (showing 1–20 of 20)

• AV1 HDR10+ Metadata Handling Specification (AOMediaCodec)Official AOM repo specifying HDR10+ dynamic metadata handling for AV1, with Bikeshed spec source and conformance test suite.
• Android HDR Video Playback (AOSP Platform Docs)AOSP documentation of the platform HDR pipeline: HLG vs PQ handling, mastering display and content light level metadata (mdcv/clli, SmDm/Co…
• Apple Tech Talk — Authoring 4K and HDR HLS StreamsApple session on the tagging rules for 4K and HDR HLS variants, including VIDEO-RANGE signalling for SDR, HLG and PQ.
• Disney Dolby Vision Best Practices Guide v1.3.1Official Disney mastering spec detailing Dolby Vision L0/L1/L2/L5/L6/L8 metadata layers and trim requirements per content type.
• EBU R 153 — Parameters for Live Contribution of UHD/HDREBU recommendation defining constraints for live UHD/HDR contribution links, complementing R 154's delivery parameters.
• EBU R 154 — Parameters for UHD/HDR Programme DeliveryEBU recommendation setting required parameters for UHD and HDR programme delivery, referencing ITU-R BT.2100 and BT.2408 practice.
• EBU Tech 3373 — HLG UHDTV Colour Bar Test PatternsSpecification and downloadable TIFF/v210 HLG colour bar patterns for validating HDR production pipelines and 2SI signal paths.
• FOSDEM 2023: 4K HDR Video with AV1 — A Reality CheckFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk covering HDR encoder challenges and signal-conformance/evaluation testing strategies for AV1+HDR content.
• Frequently Asked Questions on High Dynamic Range and Hybrid Log-GammaBBC R&D guide answering common questions about HDR and HLG technology. Technical reference for HDR implementation.
• HDR ToolboxMATLAB/Octave toolbox with a broad collection of tone mapping operators (Reinhard, Durand, Mertens, etc.), widely cited in academia.
• HbbTV: Standards in the UHD Streaming BackendHbbTV webinar deck on signalling HLG10, PQ10 and dynamic-metadata HDR in CMAF, DASH and HLS backends for UHD services.
• ITU-R BT.2100-3 — Image Parameter Values for HDR-TVLatest (Feb 2025) official ITU-R recommendation defining PQ and HLG transfer functions and HDR-TV image parameters for production/exchange.
• ITU-R BT.2408-9 — Operational practices for HDR television production2026 edition of the ITU report giving practical guidance for HDR production with PQ and HLG, including reference levels and SDR/HDR convers…
• Netflix Dolby Vision HDR Mastering GuidelinesOfficial Netflix delivery specification for Dolby Vision mastering, covering DV 4.0/2.9 profile requirements and IMF packaging.
• PQ and HLG Transfer Functions for HDR (Venera Technologies)QC-vendor explainer on scene-referred HLG vs display-referred PQ transfer functions, tone-mapping implications, and correct signalling in d…
• Report ITU-R BT.2408-5 — Operational Practices for HDR TV ProductionOfficial ITU-R guidance report on HDR TV production operational practices: gamma/exposure handling, best-practice workflows.
• Subjective Comparison of Three Tone Mapping Algorithms for HDR-to-SDR2025 peer-reviewed paper comparing clip, Reinhard, and Hable-class tone mapping operators for HDR-to-SDR conversion.
• Unsupervised HDR Tone Mapping via Contrastive LearningTCSVT 2023 academic paper with code (UnCLTMO) on unsupervised video HDR tone mapping with temporal consistency.
• awesome-deep-hdrCurated list of deep-learning HDR imaging papers with accompanying code implementations.
• tonemaplibPython library for video-focused HDR tone mapping, including a Reinhard02 implementation.