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On Seeing Transparent Surfaces in Stereoscopic Displays. Inna Tsirlin-Zaharescu, Robert S. Allison and Laurie M. Wilcox. Motivation. Small number of psychophysical studies addressed stereo-transparency (Akerstrom & Todd 1988, Gepshtein & Cooperman 1998, Wallace & Mamassian 2004).
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On Seeing Transparent Surfaces in Stereoscopic Displays Inna Tsirlin-Zaharescu, Robert S. Allison and Laurie M. Wilcox
Motivation • Small number of psychophysical studies addressed stereo-transparency (Akerstrom & Todd 1988, Gepshtein & Cooperman 1998, Wallace & Mamassian 2004) • Stereo-transparency presents a difficult problem both theoretically and computationally • Goals • Investigate the number of overlaid planes limiting the perception of stereo-transparency • Study the combined effects of density, disparity and number of planes on the percept of stereo-transparency.
Methods • Stimuli were 12.6o square RDS’s depicting n overlaid planes of dots with inter-plane depth separation d. • In Glass planes dots were arranged in a horizontal-shift Glass pattern. • Task: the observers were asked to report the number ofplanes and the number of Glass planes they perceived. • Stimulus parameters: • Density: 2, 6.3, 10, 15.7 dots/deg2 • Inter-plane separation: 1.9’, 3.8’, 5.7’, 7.6’ • Number of planes: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
2 PLANES 3 PLANES 100 50 0 100 50 0 DENSITY 5 PLANES 2 dots/deg2 2 dots/deg2 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 100 50 0 6.3 dots/deg2 6.3 dots/deg2 5 PLANES 4 PLANES 100 50 0 100 50 0 10 dots/deg2 10 dots/deg2 PERCENT CORRECT 15.7 dots/deg2 15.7 dots/deg2 PERCENT CORRECT 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 6 PLANES 100 50 0 DENSITY 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 INTER-PLANE DISPARITY (min. of arc) 1.9 3.8 5.7 7.6 INTER-PLANE DISPARITY (min. of arc)
Discussion Detrimental effects on stereo-transparency Possible explanation Small disparities Disparity pooling Increase in disparity beyond an optimal value Size-disparity correlation Adapted from McKee & Verghese 2002 Increase in density Increase in the number of planes
Conclusions • We are able to segregate up to 3 planes under all conditions and up to 5 planes under optimal conditions. • Increasing the number of planes, density and disparity beyond an optimal value degrades performance • The interaction of these parameters plays an important role in stereo-transparency and cannot be ignored in future research • Stereoscopic modeling based on a combination of position-shift and phase-shift energy detectors cannot account for the experimental results.
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Right image Left image Uniqueness constraint Continuity constraint Motivation • Stereo-transparency presents a difficult problem both theoretically and computationally • Small number of psychophysical studies addressed stereo-transparency • Used RDS stimuli with only 2 overlaid planes • Varied RDS parameters in isolation
True Transparency Pseudo- transparency Types of stereo-transparency