<title>Controlling perceived depth in stereoscopic images</title>

Abstract

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Influence of Binocular Disparity in Depth Perception Mechanisms in Virtual Environments

“…Other experimental studies [4,12,15] focused on analyzing the influence of several depth cues in depth perception mechanisms have also carried out experiments without avoiding possible size influences. This first study has outlined the necessity of removing size cues which can conceal other cues influence.…”

“…According to the aforementioned studies [4,12,15], the second study has been performed based on the assumption that depth perception is influenced by binocular disparities. Therefore, binocular cues should be an important factor to improve accuracy of tasks that basically consist in placing a virtual object in depth.…”

“…2.1. Equations 1 and 2 respectively show the inner and outer perceived p depth from the projection area [12] as a function of the natural interocular distance e, the observation distance z and the displayed binocular disparity onto the screen d generated by the shifted CGI.…”

“…Both eyes are represented by two cameras horizontally shifted by the interocular distance. Jones [12] and Holliman [15] proposed a method to convert depth between VE and real world depending on the parameters of the OpenGL display function.…”

Fundamentals of Stereoscopic 3D Game Design

“…Jones et. al presented an algorithm to calculate parameters for automatically mapping a virtual depth range into physical screen space [11]. Holliman later proposed a multi-pass rendering approach for non-linear mapping of three different depth regions into screen space [7; 8].…”