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Readability Enhancement Algorithm for Patterned Retarder based Stereoscopic 3D display

Patterned Retarder 방식 입체 디스플레이에서의 가독성 향상 기법

  • Received : 2012.10.31
  • Published : 2013.05.25

Abstract

This paper proposes a readability enhancement filter for Patterned Retarder (PR) display. In general, when some texts in stereoscopic images are shown on PR display, their readability tends to be lowered. In order to overcome this problem, we present a readability enhancement algorithm which consists of readability filtering stage and post-processing stage for specific characters. First, each input stereo image is divided into an odd line image and an even line image. Then, they are independently up-scaled vertically by using Lanczos filter. Next, two up-scaled line images are averaged considering vertical phase difference. In post-processing stage, two specific characters which are normally difficult to read on PR display are detected, and they are filtered for additional readability enhancement. Here, this additional filtering is based on a specific brightness adjustment, and is applied only for two characters. The experiment results show that the proposed method achieves significant improvement in terms of readability in comparison with the previous scheme.

본 논문은 Patterned Retarder (PR) 방식의 영상 표시 장치에서 문자 가독성 향상을 위한 필터를 제안한다. 일반적으로 3차원 입체 영상 내 존재하는 글자를 편광 안경을 통해 시청하게 되면 작은 글자의 경우 가독성이 저하된다. 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해 우리는 글자 영역에 대한 가독성 향상을 위한 필터링 과정과 특정 글자만을 추가로 개선하는 후처리 과정으로 구성된 새로운 가독성 향상 기법을 제안한다. 먼저 가독성 향상 필터링은 입력되는 스테레오 영상의 기수 라인과 우수 라인을 분리하고, 각각의 영상을 수직 방향으로 2배 확대한 후 좌우 영상들을 평균하여 최종 결과를 얻는 방식이다. 후처리 단계에서는 추가적으로 가독성을 향상시킬 특정 글자들을 검출한 후 검출된 영역에서만 대비 조절을 통해 가독성 향상 효과를 준다. 모의 실험을 통해 제안 기법에 의한 영상이 기존 방식에 의한 결과 영상보다 가독성이 많이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

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