Detection and removal of binocular luster in compressed 3D images

Author

Bal, Can ; Jain, Ankit K. ; Nguyen, Truong Q.

Author_Institution

ECE Dept., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

22-27 May 2011

Firstpage

1345

Lastpage

1348

Abstract

Binocular luster is an extremely salient effect seen in 3D when an object in each stereo image exhibits a different contrast polarity relative to the background. The object appears to shimmer, a phenomenon seen in nature and on 3D displays, which the Human Visual System rapidly detects. This binocular luster is also induced by compression of stereo imagery where corresponding blocks are quantized to different values. In this paper, we discuss the psychovisual background of binocular luster, introduce the "shine" artifact induced by compression, and present an algorithm for detection and removal of shine from JPEG compressed stereo images without introducing additional bitrate.

Keywords

image coding; image denoising; object detection; stereo image processing; three-dimensional displays; 3D displays; 3D image compression; JPEG compressed stereo images; binocular luster detection; binocular luster removal; human visual system; image contrast polarity; psychovisual background; shine detection; shine removal; Bit rate; Image coding; Image color analysis; Pixel; Psychology; Three dimensional displays; Transform coding; 3D; artifact; compression; metric; stereo;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0538-0

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946661

Filename

5946661