I remember reading about this topic a few years ago, but couldnt remember the name of the mthod, and found no references.

What do you think of this method for non-scientists for finding unknown thresholds in common monotonic degradation mechanisms such as lossy compression and bitdepth/samplerate?


I cant see why it would be impossible to extend/complement foo_abx with a staircase test-plugin for foobar where an ordered list of degraded sourcefiles is presented by the user?

http://cornea.berkeley.edu/pubs/01-11_PERC...ic_function.pdf


http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kforster/dmdx/up...n_staircase.htm

http://arthur.is.verweg.com/projects/staircase/

-k