Perceptually-based compensation of light pollution in display systems

  • Authors:
  • Jeroen van Baar;Steven Poulakos;Wojciech Jarosz;Derek Nowrouzezahrai;Rasmus Tamstorf;Markus Gross

  • Affiliations:
  • Disney Research Zürich;ETH Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Disney Research Zürich;Walt Disney Animation Studios;Disney Research Zürich, ETH Zürich

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of unintended light contributions due to physical properties of display systems. An example of such unintended contribution is crosstalk in stereoscopic 3D display systems, often referred to as ghosting. Ghosting results in a reduction of visual quality, and may lead to an uncomfortable viewing experience. The latter is due to conflicting (depth) edge cues, which can hinder the human visual system (HVS) proper fusion of stereo images (stereopsis). We propose an automatic, perceptually-based computational compensation framework, which formulates pollution elimination as a minimization problem. Our method aims to distribute the error introduced by the pollution in a perceptually optimal manner. As a consequence ghost edges are smoothed locally, resulting in a more comfortable stereo viewing experience. We show how to make the computation tractable by exploiting the structure of the resulting problem, and also propose a perceptually-based pollution prediction. We show that our general framework is applicable to other light pollution problems, such as descattering.