Monocular Depth Perception Enhancement Based on Joint Shading/Contrast Model and Motion Parallax (JSM)

TL;DR

This paper introduces JSM, a framework that enhances monocular depth perception on 2D and 3D displays by combining shading, contrast, and motion parallax cues, reducing reliance on expensive stereoscopic devices.

Contribution

The novel JSM framework improves monocular depth perception by integrating shading, contrast, and motion cues, applicable to standard displays and complementary to binocular cues.

Findings

Enhanced depth perception on conventional 2D displays.

Proven effectiveness through qualitative and subjective evaluations.

Applicable to both 2D and 3D display devices.

Abstract

Stereoscopic 3D displays adopt a binocular depth cue to provide depth perception. However, users should be equipped with expensive special devices to appreciate depth perception based on the binocular depth cues. Also, visual fatigue induced by the stereoscopic display is still a challenging open problem. In order to overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a novel framework, JSM, to enhance monocular depth perception, significantly improving both depth volume perception and depth range perception. The proposed framework can not only provide an enhanced depth perception on any conventional 2D display devices, but also it can be applicable to the 3D display devices since it is complementary to binocular depth cues. The qualitative evaluation, ablation study, and subjective user evaluation proved the advantages and practicability of the proposed framework.