Is There an Uncanny Valley in Frame Rate Perception?

High frame rates for cinematic exhibition open the industry to a new realm of creative and perceptual control. Most recent research has been targeted at how fast our pixels need to refresh to mimic real motion, but we have taken a fundamentally different approach. Rather than a simple binary segmentation of motion artifact visibility in intermittent image presentation, we look to explore the gradient of motion appearance across the frame rate dimension. What would a frame-rate perception curve look like? Does it conform to Weber/Fechner psychophysics? Is it univariate or multidimensional? Is it monotonic, or perhaps an ‘uncanny valley’? Our study begins to investigate the dimensionality and structure of temporal stroboscopic perception in cinema, and takes first steps towards formalizing a temporal perceptual space.

Published

2016-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

HFR, Frame-Rate, Psychophysics, Subjective Study

DOI

10.5594/M001703

ISBN

978-1-61482-957-7