What is WDR

What is WDR

In many practical surveillance applications, the intensity of illumination with a scene can vary excessively. Images taken by standard cameras always seem to have an overexposed foreground or too dark a background due to the limitation of a camera sensors’ sensitivity. Over the course of a day, the situation can change with different areas of the scene being over or underexposed. What is required in this situation is a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) camera.

WDR surveillance cameras can filter the intense back light surrounding a subject and thus enhances the ability to distinguish features and shapes on the subject.

The below screenshots provides a preview of how a non WDR image looks compared to an image with WDR enabled.

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