Targets and Backgrounds

Targets and Backgrounds
Author: Wendell R. Watkins
Publisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1998
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780819428240

Divided into four parts, this text covers the areas of model evaluation and signature measurement issues; target and background modelling; target acquisition issues; and dual sensor systems.

Vision Models for Target Detection and Recognition

Vision Models for Target Detection and Recognition
Author: Eli Peli
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1995
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789810221492

This book is an international collection of contributions from academia, industry and the armed forces. It addresses current and emerging Spatial Vision Models and their application to the understanding, prediction and evaluation of the tasks of target detection and recognition. The discussion in many of the chapters is framed in terms of military targets and military vision aids. However, the techniques analyses and problems are by no means limited to this area of application. The detection and recognition of an armored vehicle from a reconnaissance image are performed by the same visual system used to detect and recognize a tumor in an X-ray. The analysis of the interaction of the human visual system with night vision devices is not different from the analysis needed in the case of an operator examining structures using a remote (endoscopic) camera, etc. The book is organized into three general sections. The first covers basic modeling of central (foveal) vision and its theoretical background. The second is centered on the evaluation of model performance in applications, while the third is dedicated to aspects of peripheral vision modeling and the expansion of peripheral modeling to include visual search.

Coding Properties in Invertebrate Sensory Systems

Coding Properties in Invertebrate Sensory Systems
Author: Sylvia Anton
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre:
ISBN: 2889451062

Animals rely on sensory input from their environment for survival and reproduction. Depending on the importance of a signal for a given species, accuracy of sensory coding might vary from pure detection up to precise coding of intensity, quality and temporal features of the signal. Highly sophisticated sense organs and related central nervous sensory pathways can be of utmost importance for animals in a complex environment and when using advanced communication systems. In sensory systems different anatomical and physiological features have evolved to optimally encode behaviourally relevant signals at the level of sense organs and central processing. The wide range of organizational complexity, in combination with their relatively simple and accessible nervous systems, makes invertebrates excellent models to study general sensory coding principles. The contributions to this e-book illustrate on one hand particular features of specific sensory systems, and on the other hand indicate not only common features of sensory coding across invertebrate phyla, but also similar processing principles of complex stimuli between different sensory modalities. The chapters show that the extraction of behaviourally relevant signals from all environmental stimuli, as well as the detection of low intensity signals and the analysis of temporal features can be similar across sensory modalities, including olfaction, vision, mechanoreception, and heat perception.

Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification

Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification
Author: Robert P Herz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1317120183

This edited book presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification. Special emphasis is placed on reducing human error that leads to fratricide, which is the unintentional death or injury of friendly personnel by friendly weapons during an enemy engagement. Although fratricide has been a concern since humans first engaged in combat operations, it gained prominence during the Persian Gulf War. To reduce fratricide, advances in technological approaches to enhance combat identification (e.g., Blue Force Tracker) should be coupled with the application of human factors principles to reduce human error. The book brings together a diverse group of authors from academic and military researchers to government contractors and commercial developers to provide a single volume with broad appeal. Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification is intended for the larger human factors community within academia, the military and other organizations that work with the military such as government contractors and commercial developers as well as others interested in combat identification issues including military personnel and policy makers.

Thermal Infrared Characterization of Ground Targets and Backgrounds

Thermal Infrared Characterization of Ground Targets and Backgrounds
Author: Pieter A. Jacobs
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780819460820

This new edition updates the technologies that deal with the characterization of the thermal infrared radiation contrast between ground targets and backgrounds. Samples have been updated to comply with the current status of technology in sensor systems and countermeasures. New topics on mine detection and polarization have been included, and the section covering multispectral camouflage of personnel has been extended. The basic principles and meteorological parameters are presented, followed by calibration procedures, signature measurements, and data analyses.