Since stereoscopic images provide observers with both realistic and discomfort viewing experience, it is necessary to
investigate the determinants of visual discomfort. By considering that foreground object draws most attention when
human observing stereoscopic images. This paper proposes a new foreground object based visual comfort assessment
(VCA) metric. In the first place, a suitable segmentation method is applied to disparity map and then the foreground
object is ascertained as the one having the biggest average disparity. In the second place, three visual features being
average disparity, average width and spatial complexity of foreground object are computed from the perspective of
visual attention. Nevertheless, object’s width and complexity do not consistently influence the perception of visual
comfort in comparison with disparity. In accordance with this psychological phenomenon, we divide the whole images
into four categories on the basis of different disparity and width, and exert four different models to more precisely
predict its visual comfort in the third place. Experimental results show that the proposed VCA metric outperformance
other existing metrics and can achieve a high consistency between objective and subjective visual comfort scores. The
Pearson Linear Correlation Coefficient (PLCC) and Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient (SROCC) are over
0.84 and 0.82, respectively.
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