Integrated framework for developing search and discrimination metrics

Anthony C. Copeland; Mohan M. Trivedi

doi:10.1117/12.276698

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20 June 1997 Integrated framework for developing search and discrimination metrics

Anthony C. Copeland; Mohan M. Trivedi

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Proceedings Volume 3062, Targets and Backgrounds: Characterization and Representation III; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.276698
Event: AeroSense '97, 1997, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental framework for evaluating target signature metrics as models of human visual search and discrimination. This framework is based on a prototype eye tracking testbed, the Integrated Testbed for Eye Movement Studies (ITEMS). ITEMS determines an observer's visual fixation point while he studies a displayed image scene, by processing video of the observer's eye. The utility of this framework is illustrated with an experiment using gray-scale images of outdoor scenes that contain randomly placed targets. Each target is a square region of a specific size containing pixel values from another image of an outdoor scene. The real-world analogy of this experiment is that of a military observer looking upon the sensed image of a static scene to find camouflaged enemy targets that are reported to be in the area. ITEMS provides the data necessary to compute various statistics for each target to describe how easily the observers located it, including the likelihood the target was fixated or identified and the time required to do so. The computed values of several target signature metrics are compared to these statistics, and a second-order metric based on a model of image texture was found to be the most highly correlated.

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Anthony C. Copeland and Mohan M. Trivedi "Integrated framework for developing search and discrimination metrics", Proc. SPIE 3062, Targets and Backgrounds: Characterization and Representation III, (20 June 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.276698

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