32.1: Invited Paper: — Human Stereoscopic Vision: Research Applications for 3D‐TV

Abstract

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada has been conducting research on 3D‐TV and related stereoscopic technologies since 1995. Three areas of CRC's research on human stereoscopic vision and its application to 3D‐TV are highlighted. Firstly, we will present our work on the use of inter‐ocular masking to reduce bandwidth requirements, without sacrificing high image quality. Secondly, we will present experimental results that show the effect of stereoscopic objects in motion on visual comfort. Thirdly, we will present studies to illustrate how the tendency of the human visuo‐cognitive system to correct or fill in missing visual information can be used to generate effective stereoscopic images from sparse depth maps.

Towards a New Quality Metric for 3-D Synthesized View Assessment

“…Seuntiens [2] reported that not only image quality should be taken into account for an assessment framework, but visual comfort and depth feeling as well. These last aspects are still under investigation ( [3], [4]). Concerning image quality, new distortion types have appeared, as discussed in [5], [6], [7].…”