Modeling and optimizing eye vergence response to stereoscopic cuts

Sudden temporal depth changes, such as cuts that are introduced by video edits, can significantly degrade the quality of stereoscopic content. Since usually not encountered in the real world, they are very challenging for the audience. This is because the eye vergence has to constantly adapt to new...

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Main Authors: Templin, Krzysztof, Didyk, Piotr, Myszkowski, Karol, Hefeeda, Mohamed M., Seidel, Hans-Peter, Matusik, Wojciech
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100918
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5643
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author Templin, Krzysztof
Didyk, Piotr
Myszkowski, Karol
Hefeeda, Mohamed M.
Seidel, Hans-Peter
Matusik, Wojciech
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
author_facet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Templin, Krzysztof
Didyk, Piotr
Myszkowski, Karol
Hefeeda, Mohamed M.
Seidel, Hans-Peter
Matusik, Wojciech
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description Sudden temporal depth changes, such as cuts that are introduced by video edits, can significantly degrade the quality of stereoscopic content. Since usually not encountered in the real world, they are very challenging for the audience. This is because the eye vergence has to constantly adapt to new disparities in spite of conflicting accommodation requirements. Such rapid disparity changes may lead to confusion, reduced understanding of the scene, and overall attractiveness of the content. In most cases the problem cannot be solved by simply matching the depth around the transition, as this would require flattening the scene completely. To better understand this limitation of the human visual system, we conducted a series of eye-tracking experiments. The data obtained allowed us to derive and evaluate a model describing adaptation of vergence to disparity changes on a stereoscopic display. Besides computing user-specific models, we also estimated parameters of an average observer model. This enables a range of strategies for minimizing the adaptation time in the audience.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1009182022-09-28T11:40:18Z Modeling and optimizing eye vergence response to stereoscopic cuts Templin, Krzysztof Didyk, Piotr Myszkowski, Karol Hefeeda, Mohamed M. Seidel, Hans-Peter Matusik, Wojciech Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Templin, Krzysztof Didyk, Piotr Matusik, Wojciech Sudden temporal depth changes, such as cuts that are introduced by video edits, can significantly degrade the quality of stereoscopic content. Since usually not encountered in the real world, they are very challenging for the audience. This is because the eye vergence has to constantly adapt to new disparities in spite of conflicting accommodation requirements. Such rapid disparity changes may lead to confusion, reduced understanding of the scene, and overall attractiveness of the content. In most cases the problem cannot be solved by simply matching the depth around the transition, as this would require flattening the scene completely. To better understand this limitation of the human visual system, we conducted a series of eye-tracking experiments. The data obtained allowed us to derive and evaluate a model describing adaptation of vergence to disparity changes on a stereoscopic display. Besides computing user-specific models, we also estimated parameters of an average observer model. This enables a range of strategies for minimizing the adaptation time in the audience. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (IIS-1111415) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (IIS-1116296) 2016-01-19T02:58:37Z 2016-01-19T02:58:37Z 2014-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 07300301 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100918 Krzysztof Templin, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Mohamed M. Hefeeda, Hans-Peter Seidel, and Wojciech Matusik. 2014. Modeling and optimizing eye vergence response to stereoscopic cuts. ACM Trans. Graph. 33, 4, Article 145 (July 2014), 8 pages. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5643 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2601097.2601148 ACM Transactions on Graphics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain
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title_short Modeling and optimizing eye vergence response to stereoscopic cuts
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