Forced Choice Subjective Experiment


The FC protocol displays 6 images.
Three original images are displayed on the upper part of the screen, whereas three distorted images are shown in the lower half of the monitor.
The same distortion parameters applies to all three images.
The index of the current image is shown on top of the page.

The observer is asked to select the correct corresponding pair of images.
On image (and only one) is present both in the upper and lower parts.

The observers must click on the original images on top, and then click on the corresponding distorted image at the bottom.
A selection is mandatory, this is a forced choice protocol.

This is a modified 2AFC protocol.
There are no restrictions on the display time.


Test conditions:
At the beginning of the subjective experiment, the observer is asked for his name.
The test duration varies according to the number of displayed images.
The playlist can be seen here:
http://websubjexp.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/FCexp3/playlist_dist.txt

The observers should remain seated at the same distance from the screen during all the test duration.
The viewing distance should be approximately 6 times the height of the displayed images.
Once the experiment is finished, the observer can access the resulting scores here:
http://websubjexp.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/FCexp3/data/Scores_<NAME>.txt

The log gives the image number (in the first column), the position (1 to 3) of the original image on top, and the position (1 to 3 again) of the selected image.
The same line is repeated for the distorted image; i.e. we have the position (1 to 3) of the correct distorted image in the lower half of the screen, and the position (1 to 3 again) of the selected image.

Observers can run the experiment more than once, the collected scores will thus be appended in the results file.