Acceptable distortion and magnification of images on reflective surfaces in an
augmented-reality system

Shoji Yamamoto1*, Natsumi Hosokawa2, Mayu Yokoya2, Norimichi Tsumura2

1 Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology, TOKYO, JAPAN,
2 Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, CHIBA, JAPAN.

Optical Review, (2016) accepted.

Abstract
In this paper, we investigated the consistency of visual perception for the change of reflection images in an augmented reality setting. Reflection images with distortion and magnification were generated by changing the capture position of the environment map. Observers evaluated the distortion and magnification in reflection images where the reflected objects were arranged symmetrically or asymmetrically. Our results confirmed that the observers’ visual perception was more sensitive to changes in distortion than in magnification in the reflection images. Moreover, the asymmetrical arrangement of reflected objects effectively expands the acceptable range of distortion compared with the symmetrical arrangement.

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