Evaluating human detection performance of targets and false alarms, using a statistical texture image metric

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2285-2295

  Aviram, Guy ^a   Rotman, Stanley R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE QUALITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; HUMAN DETECTION PERFORMANCE; IMAGE METRIC; PROBABILITY OF EDGE; STATISTICAL TEXTURE IMAGE METRIC;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0034251089     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1304925     Document Type: Article

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