Abstract
A perceptually based approach for selecting image samples has been developed. An existing image processing vision model has been extended to handle color and has been simplified to run efficiently. The resulting new image quality model was inserted into an image synthesis program by first modifying the rendering algorithm so that it computed a wavelet representation. In addition to allowing image quality to be determined as the image was generated, the wavelet representation made it possible to use statistical information about the spatial frequency distribution of natural images to estimate values where samples were yet to be taken. Tests on the image synthesis algorithm showed that it correctly handled achromatic and chromatic spatial detail and that it was able predict and compensate for masking effects. The program was also shown to produce images of equivalent visual quality while using different rendering techniques.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics |
Editors | Anon |
Publisher | ACM |
Pages | 299-309 |
Number of pages | 11 |
State | Published - Jan 1 1998 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference on Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH - Orlando, FL, USA Duration: Jul 19 1998 → Jul 24 1998 |
Other
Other | Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference on Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH |
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City | Orlando, FL, USA |
Period | 7/19/98 → 7/24/98 |