how HDR works

http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/rendering-high-dynamic-range-images-on-the-web.html

and http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs129/results/proj5/njooma/

and in general a few links about the differences between an eye and a camera:

usenix papers

some nice material to follow up on:

https://www.usenix.org/conferences/best-papers