Visual fatigue evaluation based on depth in 3D videos

Feng-jiao Wang; Xin-zhu Sang; Yangdong Liu; Guo-zhong Shi; Da-xiong Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2033046

20 August 2013 Visual fatigue evaluation based on depth in 3D videos

Feng-jiao Wang, Xin-zhu Sang, Yangdong Liu, Guo-zhong Shi, Da-xiong Xu

Proceedings Volume 8913, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Optical Storage and Display Technology; 89130J (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2033046
Event: ISPDI 2013 - Fifth International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging, 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

In recent years, 3D technology has become an emerging industry. However, visual fatigue always impedes the development of 3D technology. In this paper we propose some factors affecting human perception of depth as new quality metrics. These factors are from three aspects of 3D video--spatial characteristics, temporal characteristics and scene movement characteristics. They play important roles for the viewer's visual perception. If there are many objects with a certain velocity and the scene changes fast, viewers will feel uncomfortable. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to calculate the weight values of these factors and analyses their effect on visual fatigue.MSE (Mean Square Error) of different blocks is taken into consideration from the frame and inter-frame for 3D stereoscopic videos. The depth frame is divided into a number of blocks. There are overlapped and sharing pixels (at half of the block) in the horizontal and vertical direction. Ignoring edge information of objects in the image can be avoided. Then the distribution of all these data is indicated by kurtosis with regard of regions which human eye may mainly gaze at. Weight values can be gotten by the normalized kurtosis. When the method is used for individual depth, spatial variation can be achieved. When we use it in different frames between current and previous one, we can get temporal variation and scene movement variation. Three factors above are linearly combined, so we can get objective assessment value of 3D videos directly. The coefficients of three factors can be estimated based on the liner regression. At last, the experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits high correlation with subjective quality assessment results.

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Feng-jiao Wang, Xin-zhu Sang, Yangdong Liu, Guo-zhong Shi, and Da-xiong Xu "Visual fatigue evaluation based on depth in 3D videos", Proc. SPIE 8913, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Optical Storage and Display Technology, 89130J (20 August 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2033046

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