Track: Human Factors and Ergonomics

Abstract

The “partial cartoon central vision compensation technique” involves partially superimposing the entire surrounding image in the form of a cartoon layer to the immediate left and right of the visible/truncated image. This research has been inspired by the increasing demand in EVES (electronic vision enhancement techniques) for various low-vision and industrial applications. A previous publication has reviewed this technique from an analytical perspective, while this paper addresses the subjective evaluation of this method for five different daily-life scenarios. Images remapped using different cartoon (or superimposition) factors and gray shades were evaluated through surveys performed on 115 subjects, where image quality was relatively assessed using measures of image detail and distortion. It is concluded that the partial cartoon technique is most suitable for daylight, outdoor conditions at cartoon factor of 30% with a black shade.