An objective metric for assessing quality of experience on stereoscopic images

Most quality models for stereoscopic presentations are dedicated to measuring quality degradation caused by compression artefacts. However, non-compression distortions induced during acquisition and presentation usually have significant influence on 3D viewing experience. In this paper, we propose an objective metric for viewing experience assessment by taking camera baseline and binocular distortion crosstalk into consideration. In particular, the proposed metric is based on our previous work on both subjective evaluation and objective assessment of crosstalk perception. Results on a publicly available stereoscopic quality database demonstrate that the proposed metric can achieve more than 87% correlation with subjective assessment of viewing experience.