A PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDY OF FOVEAL GRADIENT BASED SELECTIVE RENDERING

Veronica Sundstedt

2008

Abstract

High-fidelity rendering of complex scenes at interactive rates is one of the primary goals of computer graphics. Since high-fidelity rendering is computationally expensive, perceptual strategies such as visual attention have been explored to achieve this goal. Inattentional Blindness (IB) experiments have shown that observers conducting a task can fail to see an object, although it is located within the foveal region (2◦). However, previous attention based algorithms assumed that IB would be restricted to the area outside the foveal region, selectively rendering the areas around task-related objects in high quality and the surrounding areas in lower quality. This paper describes a psychophysical forced-choice preference experiment assessing if participants, performing a task or free-viewing animations, would fail to notice rendering quality degradation within the foveal region. The effect of prior knowledge on the level of perceived quality is also studied. The study involves 64 participants in four conditions: performing a task, or free-viewing a scene, while being naive or informed about assessing rendering quality. Our results show that participants fail to notice the additional reduction in quality, decreasing the overall computation 13 times. There was also a significant difference in the results if free-viewing participants were informed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sundstedt V. (2008). A PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDY OF FOVEAL GRADIENT BASED SELECTIVE RENDERING . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 207-214. DOI: 10.5220/0001097402070214

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp08,
author={Veronica Sundstedt},
title={A PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDY OF FOVEAL GRADIENT BASED SELECTIVE RENDERING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={207-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001097402070214},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - A PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDY OF FOVEAL GRADIENT BASED SELECTIVE RENDERING
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Sundstedt V.
PY - 2008
SP - 207
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0001097402070214