Stanford Seminar: Modeling Displays and the Human Eye

Michael Deering
October 3, 2005, 4:15PM
Hewlett (TCSeq) 200
http://graphics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/
Abstract
This talk will describe a simulation of modern display devices projecting light onto a new synthetic model of human eye cones. In a first step all 5 million cones in the human retina are grown in a mosaic simulation based on known biological data. The optical simulation is carried out at a deep level, with each individual photon emitted by a display device effectively modeled as a wavefront shape through the eye's optical system, and then interacting with a per-cone custom aperture shape before possible photoisomerization. The model is intended to be used to better understand the interaction between display pixel spatial-temporal structure and human perceptual resolution. This talk is the extended version of my SIGGRAPH 2005 paper presentation "A Photon Accurate Model of the Human Eye" plus my SIGGRAPH 2005 sketch presentation "A Human Eye Retinal Cone Synthesizer".