Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units

Autores
O´donell, Beatriz Maria; Colombo, Elisa Margarita
Año de publicación
2001
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The purpose of this paper is to find the physical luminance contrast of an image that best relates to perceptual quality in VDU achromatic tasks. The studies were carried out by measurement of visual performance, comfort judgements and contrast adjustment, taking into account different resolutions, polarities, background luminances and illuminance values. The results add a new piece of evidence about inner contrast as an appropriate criterion to describe perceptual contrast. Inner contrast also provides a satisfactory criterion for the optimum relation of luminances in inner details of characters. This paper shows that when the relation between suprathreshold perceptual response and stimulus magnitude - inner contrast - is plotted, the power function relationship is a curve that is concave downward; there is a compression of the perceptual response. Illuminance on the horizontal plane, within the experimental range (480 and 930 lux) is not a significant parameter. Background luminance is significant for comfort judgements and contrast adjustment trials, but not for visual performance results. Grey background and characters brighter than background seem to be preferred by the observers. Mean luminance contrasts higher than 5 are sufficient to reach a visual performance of 90% and good visual comfort. The corresponding inner contrast is 1.4.
Fil: O´donell, Beatriz Maria. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; Argentina
Fil: Colombo, Elisa Margarita. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión; Argentina
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INNER CONTRAST
CRT MONITORS
PERCEPTUAL QUALITY
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spelling Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display unitsO´donell, Beatriz MariaColombo, Elisa MargaritaINNER CONTRASTCRT MONITORSPERCEPTUAL QUALITYhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2The purpose of this paper is to find the physical luminance contrast of an image that best relates to perceptual quality in VDU achromatic tasks. The studies were carried out by measurement of visual performance, comfort judgements and contrast adjustment, taking into account different resolutions, polarities, background luminances and illuminance values. The results add a new piece of evidence about inner contrast as an appropriate criterion to describe perceptual contrast. Inner contrast also provides a satisfactory criterion for the optimum relation of luminances in inner details of characters. This paper shows that when the relation between suprathreshold perceptual response and stimulus magnitude - inner contrast - is plotted, the power function relationship is a curve that is concave downward; there is a compression of the perceptual response. Illuminance on the horizontal plane, within the experimental range (480 and 930 lux) is not a significant parameter. Background luminance is significant for comfort judgements and contrast adjustment trials, but not for visual performance results. Grey background and characters brighter than background seem to be preferred by the observers. Mean luminance contrasts higher than 5 are sufficient to reach a visual performance of 90% and good visual comfort. The corresponding inner contrast is 1.4.Fil: O´donell, Beatriz Maria. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; ArgentinaFil: Colombo, Elisa Margarita. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión; ArgentinaSage Publications Ltd2001-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/105643O´donell, Beatriz Maria; Colombo, Elisa Margarita; Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units; Sage Publications Ltd; Lighting Research & Technology; 33; 3; 9-2001; 145-1611365-78281477-1535CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1177/136578280103300302info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/136578280103300302info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:47:52Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/105643instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:47:52.22CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
title Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
spellingShingle Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
O´donell, Beatriz Maria
INNER CONTRAST
CRT MONITORS
PERCEPTUAL QUALITY
title_short Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
title_full Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
title_fullStr Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
title_full_unstemmed Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
title_sort Inner contrast and perceptual quality in tasks with video display units
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv O´donell, Beatriz Maria
Colombo, Elisa Margarita
author O´donell, Beatriz Maria
author_facet O´donell, Beatriz Maria
Colombo, Elisa Margarita
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author2 Colombo, Elisa Margarita
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv INNER CONTRAST
CRT MONITORS
PERCEPTUAL QUALITY
topic INNER CONTRAST
CRT MONITORS
PERCEPTUAL QUALITY
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.11
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The purpose of this paper is to find the physical luminance contrast of an image that best relates to perceptual quality in VDU achromatic tasks. The studies were carried out by measurement of visual performance, comfort judgements and contrast adjustment, taking into account different resolutions, polarities, background luminances and illuminance values. The results add a new piece of evidence about inner contrast as an appropriate criterion to describe perceptual contrast. Inner contrast also provides a satisfactory criterion for the optimum relation of luminances in inner details of characters. This paper shows that when the relation between suprathreshold perceptual response and stimulus magnitude - inner contrast - is plotted, the power function relationship is a curve that is concave downward; there is a compression of the perceptual response. Illuminance on the horizontal plane, within the experimental range (480 and 930 lux) is not a significant parameter. Background luminance is significant for comfort judgements and contrast adjustment trials, but not for visual performance results. Grey background and characters brighter than background seem to be preferred by the observers. Mean luminance contrasts higher than 5 are sufficient to reach a visual performance of 90% and good visual comfort. The corresponding inner contrast is 1.4.
Fil: O´donell, Beatriz Maria. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; Argentina
Fil: Colombo, Elisa Margarita. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología. Instituto de Investigación en Luz, Ambiente y Visión; Argentina
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