Monocular Depth Perception Enhancement Based on Joint Shading/Contrast Model and Motion Parallax (JSM)
For users of conventional 2D displays, this framework provides an enhanced depth perception without expensive 3D equipment, addressing visual fatigue issues.
The paper proposes JSM, a framework that enhances monocular depth perception on any 2D display by combining shading/contrast and motion parallax cues, significantly improving depth volume and range perception.
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.