A perceptually based physical error metric for realistic image synthesis
Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Putting social sciences together again: an introduction to the volume
Dynamics in human and primate societies
Measuring and predicting visual fidelity
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Perception-guided global illumination solution for animation rendering
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Spatiotemporal sensitivity and visual attention for efficient rendering of dynamic environments
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Video Acceptability and Frame Rate
IEEE MultiMedia
Perceptually-Driven Simplification for Interactive Rendering
Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques
Detail to attention: exploiting visual tasks for selective rendering
EGRW '03 Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics workshop on Rendering
TPCG '04 Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2004 (TPCG'04)
Rate control for low-bit-rate video via variable-encoding frame rates
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Auditory bias of visual attention for perceptually-guided selective rendering of animations
GRAPHITE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and South East Asia
Parallel selective rendering of high-fidelity virtual environments
Parallel Computing
Screen-space perceptual rendering of human skin
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Bimodal perception of audio-visual material properties for virtual environments
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Virtual smell: authentic smell diffusion in virtual environments
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa
Perceptually guided high-fidelity rendering exploiting movement bias in visual attention
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Investigation of the beat rate effect on frame rate for animated content
Proceedings of the 25th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Cross-modal affects of smell on the real-time rendering of grass
Proceedings of the 25th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Saliency in motion: selective rendering of dynamic virtual environments
Proceedings of the 25th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Acoustic Rendering and Auditory–Visual Cross-Modal Perception and Interaction
Computer Graphics Forum
The effects of audio on depth perception in S3D games
Proceedings of the 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
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The developers and users of interactive computer graphics (CG), such as 3D games and virtual reality, are demanding ever more realistic computer generated imagery delivered at high frame rates, to enable a greater perceptual experience for the user. As more computational power and/or transmission bandwidth are not always available, special techniques are applied that trade off fidelity in order to reduce computational complexity, while trying to minimise the perceptibility of the resulting visual defects. Research on human visual perception has promoted the development of perception driven CG techniques, where knowledge of the human visual system and its weaknesses are exploited when rendering/displaying 3D graphics. It is well known in the human perception community that many factors, including audio stimuli, may influence the amount of cognitive resources available to perform a visual task. In this paper we investigate the influence sound effects have on the perceptibility of motion smoothness in an animation (i.e. on the perception of delivered frame rate). Forty participants viewed pairs of computer-generated walkthrough animations (with the same visual content within the pair) displayed at five different frame rates, in all possible combinations. Both walkthroughs in each test pair were either silent or accompanied by sound effects and the participant had to detect the one that had a smoother motion (i.e. was delivered at higher frame rate). A significant effect of sound effects on the perceived smoothness was revealed. The participants who watched the audiovisual walkthroughs gave more erroneous answers while performing their task compared to the subjects in the "No Sound" group, regardless of their familiarity with animated CG. Especially the unfamiliar participants failed to notice motion smoothness variations which were apparent to them in the absence of sound. The effect of the type of camera movement in the scene (translation or rotation) on the viewers' perception of the motion smoothness/jerkiness was also investigated, but no significant association between them was found. Our results should lead to new insights in 3D graphics regarding the requirements for the delivered frame rate in a wide range of applications.