Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism

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Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism. / March, Joseph; Krishnan, Anantha; Watt, Simon et al.
In: SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022, 30.11.2022.

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March, J, Krishnan, A, Watt, S, Wernikowski, M, Gao, H, Yöntem, AÖ & Mantiuk, R 2022, 'Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism', SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

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March, J., Krishnan, A., Watt, S., Wernikowski, M., Gao, H., Yöntem, A. Ö., & Mantiuk, R. (2022). Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism. SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

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March J, Krishnan A, Watt S, Wernikowski M, Gao H, Yöntem AÖ, Mantiuk R. 2022. Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism. SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022. Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

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March J, Krishnan A, Watt S, Wernikowski M, Gao H, Yöntem AÖ et al. Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism. SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022. 2022 Nov 30;22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

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March, Joseph ; Krishnan, Anantha ; Watt, Simon et al. / Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism. In: SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022. 2022.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Impact of correct and simulated focus cues on perceived realism

AU - March, Joseph

AU - Krishnan, Anantha

AU - Watt, Simon

AU - Wernikowski, Marek

AU - Gao, Hongyun

AU - Yöntem, Ali Özgür

AU - Mantiuk, Rafal

PY - 2022/11/30

Y1 - 2022/11/30

N2 - The natural accommodation of the human eye to different distances results in focus cues, which contribute to depth perception and appearance. Since focus cues are very difficult to reproduce in an electronic display, it is desirable to know how much they contribute to realistic image appearance. In this work we quantify the potential benefit of focus cues in terms of increased realism compared to regular stereo image presentation. As a secondary goal, we evaluate whether three depth-of-field rendering techniques, which reproduce defocus blur at three different degrees of accuracy, can reintroduce the benefits of focus cues. Our findings confirm the importance of focus cues for realistic image appearance, and also show that they cannot easily be substituted by depth-of-field rendering.

AB - The natural accommodation of the human eye to different distances results in focus cues, which contribute to depth perception and appearance. Since focus cues are very difficult to reproduce in an electronic display, it is desirable to know how much they contribute to realistic image appearance. In this work we quantify the potential benefit of focus cues in terms of increased realism compared to regular stereo image presentation. As a secondary goal, we evaluate whether three depth-of-field rendering techniques, which reproduce defocus blur at three different degrees of accuracy, can reintroduce the benefits of focus cues. Our findings confirm the importance of focus cues for realistic image appearance, and also show that they cannot easily be substituted by depth-of-field rendering.

KW - visual experiments

KW - quality assessment

KW - perception

KW - perceptual realism

KW - computational displays

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3550469.3555405

M3 - Conference article

JO - SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022

JF - SA '22: SigGraph Asia 2022

M1 - 22

ER -