Optical Image Processing Using Light Modulation Displays

Gordon Wetzstein1, Wolfgang Heidrich1, David Luebke2

1The University of British Columbia
2NVIDIA Research


Published in Computer Graphics Forum 29 (6) 2010, presented at Eurgraphics 2011




Abstract

We propose to enhance the capabilities of the human visual system by performing optical image processing directly on an observed scene. Unlike previous work which additively superimposes imagery on a scene, or completely replaces scene imagery with a manipulated version, we perform all manipulation through the use of a light modulation display to spatially filter incoming light. We demonstrate a number of perceptually-motivated algorithms including contrast enhancement and reduction, object highlighting for preattentive emphasis, color saturation, de-saturation, and de-metamerization, as well as visual enhancement for the color blind. A camera observing the scene guides the algorithms for on-the-fly processing, enabling dynamic application scenarios such as monocular scopes, eyeglasses, and windshields.


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Bibtex:
@article{Wetzstein:10,
   author = {Gordon Wetzstein and Wolfgang Heidrich and David Luebke},
   title = {{Optical Image Processing Using Light Modulation Displays}},
   journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
   year = {2010},
   volume = {29},
   issue = {6},
   pages = {1934--1944},
}