Objective visual comfort evaluation method based on disparity information and motion for stereoscopic video.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an objective evaluation method which considers three major factors affecting the visual comfort of viewing a stereoscopic video: the horizontal disparity, the vertical disparity, and the motion. Three experiments are conducted which aim to investigate the effect of three factors on visual comfort. The experimental results show that the visual comfort decreases with increasing the disparity magnitude and motion velocity. Both fast planar motion and depth motion have a negative impact on visual comfort. Finally, we verify the performance of the proposed whole evaluation measure. The experimental results show that the proposed objective evaluation method exhibits good consistency with the subjective evaluation results.