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Main Authors: Fan, Chunling, Zhang, Yun, Saupe, Dietmar, Hamzaoui, Raouf, Lin, Weisi
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21557
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author Fan, Chunling
Zhang, Yun
Saupe, Dietmar
Hamzaoui, Raouf
Lin, Weisi
author_facet Fan, Chunling
Zhang, Yun
Saupe, Dietmar
Hamzaoui, Raouf
Lin, Weisi
contents The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) accounts for the minimum distortion at which humans can perceive a difference between a pristine stimulus and its distorted version. The JND concept has been widely applied in visual signal processing tasks, including coding, transmission, rendering, and quality assessment, to optimize human-centric media experiences. A point cloud is a mainstream volumetric data representation consisting of both geometry information and attributes (e.g. color). Point clouds are used for advanced immersive 3D media such as Virtual Reality (VR). However, the JND characteristics of viewing point clouds in VR have not been explored before. In this paper, we study the point cloud-wise JND (PCJND) characteristics in a Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) VR environment using a head-mounted display. Our findings reveal that the texture PCJND of human eyes is smaller than the geometry PCJND for most point clouds. Furthermore, we identify a correlation between colorfulness and texture PCJND. However, there is no significant correlation between colorfulness and the geometry PCJND, nor between the number of points and neither the texture or geometry PCJND. To support future research in JND prediction and perception-driven signal processing, we introduce PC-JND, a novel point cloud-based JND dataset. This dataset will be made publicly available to facilitate advancements in perceptual optimization for immersive media.
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spellingShingle PC-JND: Subjective Study and Dataset on Just Noticeable Difference for Point Clouds in 6DoF Virtual Reality
Fan, Chunling
Zhang, Yun
Saupe, Dietmar
Hamzaoui, Raouf
Lin, Weisi
Multimedia
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) accounts for the minimum distortion at which humans can perceive a difference between a pristine stimulus and its distorted version. The JND concept has been widely applied in visual signal processing tasks, including coding, transmission, rendering, and quality assessment, to optimize human-centric media experiences. A point cloud is a mainstream volumetric data representation consisting of both geometry information and attributes (e.g. color). Point clouds are used for advanced immersive 3D media such as Virtual Reality (VR). However, the JND characteristics of viewing point clouds in VR have not been explored before. In this paper, we study the point cloud-wise JND (PCJND) characteristics in a Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) VR environment using a head-mounted display. Our findings reveal that the texture PCJND of human eyes is smaller than the geometry PCJND for most point clouds. Furthermore, we identify a correlation between colorfulness and texture PCJND. However, there is no significant correlation between colorfulness and the geometry PCJND, nor between the number of points and neither the texture or geometry PCJND. To support future research in JND prediction and perception-driven signal processing, we introduce PC-JND, a novel point cloud-based JND dataset. This dataset will be made publicly available to facilitate advancements in perceptual optimization for immersive media.
title PC-JND: Subjective Study and Dataset on Just Noticeable Difference for Point Clouds in 6DoF Virtual Reality
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21557