Comparison of regressors on 3D visual discomfort prediction
Most stereoscopic 3D (S3D) image visual discomfort predictors use the Support Vector Regressor (SVR) as the regression model. However, there are other good regression models such as the Random Forests (RF) and Gradient Boost Regression Tree (GBRT). Here we study the efficacy of these regression models for S3D image visual discomfort prediction. We deployed several regression models to predict the visual discomfort scores on S3D images using three kinds of features extracted from the images in the IEEE-SA and EPFL S3D image databases. So the prediction performance was evaluated to compare the performance of the different regression models. We also studied the issue of over-fitting which can affect model performance. The comparison results show that it is feasible and reliable to apply Random Forests or GBRT for S3D visual discomfort prediction with better performance than SVR.