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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JEB.2011.16.4.584

Stereoscopic Perception Improvement Using Color and Depth Transformation  

Gil, Jong-In (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Jang, Seung-Eun (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Seo, Joo-Ha (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
Kim, Man-Bae (Kangwon National Univ., Dept. of Computer & Communications)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.16, no.4, 2011 , pp. 584-595 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, RGB images and depth maps have been supplied to academic fields. The depth maps are utilized to the generation of stereoscopic images in the diverse formats according to the users' preference. A variety of methods that use depth maps have been introduced so far. One of applications is a medical field. In this area, the improvement of the perceptual quality of 2D medical images has gained much interest. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme that expands the conventional method to 3D stereoscopic image, thereby achieving the perceptual depth quality improvement as well as 3D stereoscopic perception enhancement at the same time. For this, contrast transformation as well as depth darkening are proposed and their performance is validated through the subjective test. Subjective experiments peformed for stereoscopic enhancement as well as visual fatigue validate that the proposed method achieves better 3D perception than the usage of the original stereoscopic image and suggests the limitation in terms of the visual fatigue.
Keywords
stereoscopic quality; contrast transformation; depth darkening; 3D enhancement;
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