Color stereoscopic images requiring only one color image

Yael Termin; Gal A. Kaminka; Sarit Semo; Ari Z. Zivotofsky

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Color stereoscopic images requiring only one color image

Yael Termin, Gal A. Kaminka, Sarit Semo, Ari Z. Zivotofsky

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

Utilizing remote color stereoscopic scenes typically requires the acquisition, transmission, and processing of two color images. However, the amount of information transmitted and processed is large, compared to either monocular images or monochrome stereo images. Existing approaches to this challenge focus on compression and optimization. This paper introduces an innovative complementary approach to the presentation of a color stereoscopic scene, specialized for human perception. It relies on the hypothesis that a stereo pair consisting of one monochromatic image and one color image (a MIX stereo pair) will be perceived by a human observer as a 3-D color scene. Taking advantage of color redundancy, this presentation of a monochromatic-color pair allows for a drastic reduction in the required bandwidth, even before any compression method is employed. Herein we describe controlled psychophysical experiments on up to 15 subjects. These experiments tested both color and depth perception using various combinations of color and monochromatic images. The results show that subjects perceived 3-D color images even when they were presented with only one color image in a stereoscopic pair, with no depth perception degradation and only limited color degradation. This confirms the hypothesis and validates the new approach.

Original language	English
Article number	087003
Journal	Optical Engineering
Volume	46
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2772235
State	Published - Aug 2007

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Funding Information:
The thesis [25] was joint research between The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., under NASA contract NNJ06HC37C and Prof. Yin Zhang of the Computational and Applied Mathematics department at Rice University. The last author gratefully acknowledges partial funding provided by NASA Glenn Research Center to perform a preliminary ZPM analysis using pseudospectral dynamic optimization.

Funding

This research was supported in part by ISF grant No. 1211/ 04. We thank Hezzi Yeshurun for helpful discussions and comments, and Leonid P. Yaroslavsky and Natan Netan-yahu for advice. We thank Yoav Elkoby, Michael Bend-kowski, and Avi Termin for assisting in the experiments; Shlomo Schrader for optometric assistance; and Fany and Haim Ram for technical assistance. We thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions on improving this work. As always, thanks to K. Ushi.

Funders	Funder number
Israel Science Foundation	1211/ 04

Keywords

Binocular vision
Color perception
Depth perception
Stereopsis
Stereoscopic image compression
Video bandwidth reduction

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