Perceptual depth indicator for S-3D content based on binocular and monocular cues

This article describes a general depth indicator for stereoscopic 3D video sequences. This indicator targets the characterization of the depth in 3D video sequences based on both monocular and binocular depth cues. Evaluating monocular depth cues is no easy task. Due to this high complexity, only a subset of the monocular depth cues are currently considered since it is believed that they play a major impact in depth perception. The proposed algorithm will consider the following different depth cues: binocular depth, linear perspective, blur from defocus, motion parallax and texture gradient. It will be detailed how all these all metrics have been designed. The second main contribution is the definition of a specific application scope of each metrics. This is motivated by the need to take into account the reliability of each individual metrics during the pooling. Therefore, it will be considered in the paper to identify the cases where each individual metric may fail and integrate these aspects in the general combination of the depth cues.