Survey of perceptual quality issues in three-dimensional television systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5006, Issue , 2003, Pages 313-326

  Meesters, Lydia ^a   IJsselsteijn, Wijnand ^a   Seuntiëns, Pieter ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3DTV; Image quality; Measurement paradigms; Stereoscopic artifacts; Visual comfort

Indexed keywords

HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; VISION;

STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041358642     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.474132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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