Boosting Perceptual Resolution of VR Displays

PubDate: June 2020

Teams: National Taiwan University

Writers: Hung-Chung Lu, Wen-Tsung Hsieh, Shao-Yi Chien

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Abstract

Due to the insufficient pixel density of current virtual reality (VR) headset displays, the fully immersive experiences that VR applications aim to provide are hard to achieve. In this work, we propose a framework that can boost the perceptual resolution of VR displays with reasonable computational cost. The proposed perceptual frame synthesis network can generate high-resolution information in temporal, and the high-resolution perception can then be restored by the integration process in retina. Furthermore, we propose a method to blend mixed frame-rate regions in the same frame, allowing us to improve the perceptual experience only in the focused region. Subjective experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework.