Abstract
The limited color spatial acuity of the human visual system is exploited to develop a more efficient algorithm for realistic image synthesis. A screen subdivision ray tracer is modified to control the amount of chromatic and achromatic detail present at the edges in an environment. An opponents color space (previously used to select wavelengths for synthetic image generation) is used to define the chromatic and achromatic channels present in the image. Computational savings achieved by the algorithm are discussed. A perceptual evaluation shows that image quality is not seriously degraded by the use of the technique.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 387-399 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 1666 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 27 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display III 1992 - San Jose, United States Duration: Feb 9 1992 → Feb 14 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:the subjects who volunteered their time to participate in the experiment. This work was funded by the National Science
Funding Information:
Foundation under grant number CCR 90-08445.
Funding Information:
Mark VandeWettering did the initial implementation of the algorithm described in Painter and Sloan.21 Michael Kelly wrote the software that was used to perform the perceptual comparison tests. The authors would like to thank the subjects who volunteered their time to participate in the experiment. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under grant number CCR 90-08445.
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