Signature strength metrics for camouflaged targets corresponding to human perceptual cues

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 582-591

  Copeland, Anthony C ^a,b,c,d   Trivedi, Mohan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized)   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Perceptual cues; Target discrimination; Target signature metrics; Texture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007993229     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601858     Document Type: Article

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