Computer Graphics
TU Braunschweig

Visual Fidelity Optimization of Displays

Abstract

The visual experience afforded by digital displays is not identical to our perception of the genuine real world. Display resolution, refresh rate, contrast, brightness, and color gamut neither match the physics of the real world nor the perceptual characteristics of our Human Visual System. With the aid of new algorithms, however, a number of perceptually noticeable degradations on screen can be diminished or even completely avoided.

Publications

Thomas Löwe, Michael Stengel, Emmy-Charlotte Förster, Steve Grogorick, Marcus Magnor:
Gaze Visualization for Immersive Video
in Burch, Michael and Chuang, Lewis and Fisher, Brian and Schmidt, Albrecht and Weiskopf, Daniel (Eds.): Eye Tracking and Visualization, Springer, ISBN 978-3319470238, pp. 57-71, March 2017.

Benjamin Meyer, Steve Grogorick, Mark Vollrath, Marcus Magnor:
Simulating Visual Contrast Reduction during Night-time Glare Situations on Conventional Displays
in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 4:1-4:20, July 2016.



Michael Stengel, Steve Grogorick, Elmar Eisemann, Martin Eisemann, Marcus Magnor:
An Affordable Solution for Binocular Eye Tracking and Calibration in Head-mounted Displays
Poster @ ACM Multimedia 2015, October 2015.

Michael Stengel, Pablo Bauszat, Martin Eisemann, Elmar Eisemann, Marcus Magnor:
Temporal Video Filtering and Exposure Control for Perceptual Motion Blur
in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 663-671, May 2015.
10.1109/TVCG.2014.2377753

Michael Stengel, Martin Eisemann, Stephan Wenger, Benjamin Hell, Marcus Magnor:
Optimizing Apparent Display Resolution Enhancement for Arbitrary Videos
in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 3604-3613, September 2013.
Patent number 10 2013 105 638.

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