Subjective quality analyses of stereoscopic images in 3DTV system

Subjective quality evaluation is the basis of quality evaluation of stereoscopic images. As the lack of a public and diverse testing database currently, in this paper, a symmetric stereoscopic images database is built. And then the subjective quality of stereoscopic images is analyzed from two aspects, one is the effects of JPEG, JPEG2000, H.264. The other is the comparisons between symmetric and asymmetric stereoscopic images from Gaussian blurring, white Gaussian noise, JPEG and JPEG2000, respectively. The results show three compressions are quite different in the subjective quality of symmetric stereoscopic images at different bitrates, and the comparisons between symmetric and asymmetric stereoscopic images investigate the properties of binocular fusion, binocular suppression, and binocular summation.

I. Introduction

With the development of three-dimensional 3D display and network technologies, three-dimensional television (3DTV) technology has a widespread prospect of applications [1]. However, 3DTV system is limited in bandwidth, memory, and other system resources, various coding algorithms [2] have been developed to compress video data, resulting in the occurrence of blurring, blocking, ringing, and other distortions. Therefore, how to quantify the distortions of 3D content is an issue in 3DTV system.