Assessing target search performance: The free-response operator characteristic model

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2926-2934

  Irvine, John M ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Receiver operating characteristic curve; Search problems; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATED TARGET DETECTION; FREE RESPONSE OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 12844255907     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1811086     Document Type: Article

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