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As such monitors become commonplace in both consumer and professional settings, efficient methods are needed for both converting standard dynamic range (SDR) content to HDR\u2014known as reverse tone mapping\u2014and optimizing natural HDR lighting content for display on HDR monitors. A reverse tone mapping procedure aims to produce natural lighting levels, but even on high-end HDR monitors, such images still require adjustment to avoid hard clipping. This paper presents a solution that jointly does both steps: (1) reverse tone mapping to a display-aware HDR representation, and (2) direct generation of an image tailored for a chosen monitor brightness value. We propose a novel neural network architecture conditioned on the target peak brightness via a lightweight multi-layer perceptron (MLP) module injected at the bottleneck, which predicts a bracketed stack of LDR exposures serving as the method\u2019s HDR representation. In this manner, the ill-posed tone mapping problem is guided by auxiliary information about display characteristics, improving visual quality. Experiments throughout the full consumer HDR range (100\u20134000 nits) show consistent improvements over the display-agnostic baseline in peak luminance utilization, local contrast, color and perceptual quality.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jimaging12060250","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,8]],"date-time":"2026-06-08T02:32:46Z","timestamp":1780885966000},"page":"250","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Screen-Aware Reverse Tone Mapping"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-2479-9071","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mihnea-Petrut-Ilie","family":"Mitrache","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), 060042 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2987-4022","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Costin-Anton","family":"Boiangiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), 060042 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, K., Matsuda, N., McElvain, J., Zhao, Y., Wan, T., Sun, Q., and Chapiro, A. 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