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Analysis of Stereo 3D Content Factors Causing Viewer's Discomfort

시청자의 불편감을 유발하는 스테레오 3D 영상 콘텐츠 요소 분석

  • Received : 2012.05.26
  • Accepted : 2012.10.04
  • Published : 2012.10.30

Abstract

This paper qualitatively analyzes the stereo 3D content factors causing viewer's discomfort. For this, we perform a subjective test that each subject strokes a specific key whenever he or she feels discomfort during watching stereo 3D contents. Also we extract the quantitative values of the factors in the 3D contents to obtain the temporal changes of the factors. Those two sets of data are used to analyze the contents to find the content factors which cause viewer's discomfort. The factors to be considered are the amount and the frequency of the disparity change, story of the contents, situation or environments of a scene, movement and position of the image or camera, color and luminance information as well as disparities themselves. Most researches have dealt with each factor causing viewer's discomfort but this paper focuses on the composite factors rather than each of them. That is, this paper deals with the various strong and weak factors and their composites causing viewer's discomfort in addition to the big disparities which have been mostly so far.

본 논문에서는 3D 스테레오 콘텐츠를 시청할 때 시청자의 불편감을 유발하는 요인들을 정성적으로 분석한다. 이를 위해 실제 3D 스테레오 콘텐츠를 시청하면서 불편감을 느끼는 곳을 표시하는 주관적 평가 실험을 수행하여 불편감을 느끼는 위치와 불편감 정도에 대한 데이터를 얻고, 그 콘텐츠에서 다양한 요인들에 대한 정량적인 데이터를 추출하여, 두 세트의 데이터를 대상으로 실제 불편감을 느끼게 하는 요인들을 분석한다. 분석대상은 시차의 크기와 시차변화의 크기를 비롯하여, 콘텐츠의 내용, 정황이나 상황, 화면의 움직임, 카메라의 위치와 움직임, 색상, 화면밝기 등이다. 기존 연구는 시청자의 불편감을 유발하는 개개 요인들에 대해 다루어 왔는데, 본 논문에서는 단일 요인보다는 그 요인들의 복합적인 작용에 더욱 초점을 맞춘다. 즉, 지금까지 주로 다루어왔던 큰 시차뿐만 아니라 불편감을 유발하는 크고 작은 요인들과 그 복합요인이 어느 정도의 불편감을 느끼는지를 분석한다.

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