Empirical Inference

Luminance Artifacts on CRT Displays

2002

Conference Paper

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Most visualization panels today are still built around cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), certainly on personal desktops at work and at home. Whilst capable of producing pleasing images for common applications ranging from email writing to TV and DVD presentation, it is as well to note that there are a number of nonlinear transformations between input (voltage) and output (luminance) which distort the digital and/or analogue images send to a CRT. Some of them are input-independent and hence easy to fix, e.g. gamma correction, but others, such as pixel interactions, depend on the content of the input stimulus and are thus harder to compensate for. CRT-induced image distortions cause problems not only in basic vision research but also for applications where image fidelity is critical, most notably in medicine (digitization of X-ray images for diagnostic purposes) and in forms of online commerce, such as the online sale of images, where the image must be reproduced on some output device which will not have the same transfer function as the customer's CRT. I will present measurements from a number of CRTs and illustrate how some of their shortcomings may be problematic for the aforementioned applications.

Author(s): Wichmann, FA.
Journal: IEEE Visualization
Pages: 571-574
Year: 2002
Day: 0
Editors: Moorhead, R.; Gross, M.; Joy, K. I.

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: IEEE Visualization

Digital: 0
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

BibTex

@inproceedings{1953,
  title = {Luminance Artifacts on CRT Displays},
  author = {Wichmann, FA.},
  journal = {IEEE Visualization},
  pages = {571-574},
  editors = {Moorhead, R.; Gross, M.; Joy, K. I.},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  year = {2002},
  doi = {}
}