Study on Subjective Perception of S3D Image with Regular-texture

With the rapid development of binocular stereo vision technology, S3D images and videos have been widely used in many aspects. However, there are few researches on the detail perception of comfortable experience and stereo sense based on image content with certain disparity. Considering that texture is an important visual information contained in an image, in this paper, we designed the computer-generated S3D images containing two kinds of parallax based on three types of texture distribution and six regular textures for subjective evaluation. The influence of texture features on visual comfort, depth perception and the region of interest were studied through the related data analysis. For comparison with the content of disparities, the 2D images with same texture were designed and rated for assessment. Experimental results have shown that the texture was an important factor affecting the comfort perception. However, only when the subject and the background had texture at the same time, the texture was an important factor affecting the depth perception. The different texture distribution between the main subject and background would cause the change of area of interest and evaluation result. Overall, the larger the area of the texture, the lower the comfort evaluation results, and the higher the depth perception. Our studies will not only confirm the law of perception on S3D images with certain features, but also provide the guide for multidimensional content production and display, which have practical value for the development of S3D image and video technology.