An application driven comparison of depth perception on desktop 3D displays
Holliman, Nick, Froner, Barbara and Liversedge, Simon P. (2007) An application driven comparison of depth perception on desktop 3D displays. In, Woods, Andrew J., Dodgson, Neil A., Merritt, John O., Bolas, Mark T. and McDowell, Ian E. (eds.) Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems XIV. , International Society for Optical Engineering, 64900H. (Proceedings of SPIE, 6490). (doi:10.1117/12.706275).
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Desktop 3D displays vary in their optical design and this results in a significant variation in the way in which stereo images are physically displayed on different 3D displays. When precise depth judgements need to be made these differences may become critical to task performance. Applications where this is a particular issue include medical imaging, geoscience and scientific visualization. We investigate perceived depth thresholds for four classes of desktop 3D display; full resolution, row interleaved, column interleaved and colour-column interleaved. Given the same input image resolution we calculate the physical view resolution for each class of display to geometrically predict its minimum perceived depth threshold. To verify our geometric predictions we present the design of a task where viewers are required to judge which of two neighboring squares lies in front of the other. We report results from a trial using this task where participants are randomly asked to judge whether they can perceive one of four levels of image disparity (0,2,4 and 6 pixels) on seven different desktop 3D displays. The results show a strong effect and the task produces reliable results that are sensitive to display differences. However, we conclude that depth judgement performance cannot always be predicted from display geometry alone. Other system factors, including software drivers, electronic interfaces, and individual participant differences must also be considered when choosing a 3D display to make critical depth judgements
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology > Division of Cognition |
| Item ID: | 146279 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2010 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:37 |
| Contributors: | Holliman, Nick (Author) Froner, Barbara (Author) Liversedge, Simon P. (Author) Woods, Andrew J. (Editor) Dodgson, Neil A. (Editor) Merritt, John O. (Editor) Bolas, Mark T. (Editor) McDowell, Ian E. (Editor) |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | International Society for Optical Engineering |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/146279 |
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