Evaluation of six night vision enhancement systems: Qualitative and quantitative support for intelligent image processing

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 518-531

  Mahlke, Sascha ^a   Rösler, Diana ^b   Seifert, Katharina ^c   Krems, Josef F ^b   Thüring, Manfred ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; NIGHT VISION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS (NVES); UNOBTRUSIVE LOCATIONS;

ERGONOMICS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE SENSORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER VISION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; MALE; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; TRAFFIC;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DARKNESS; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT BLINDNESS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34248998505     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X200148     Document Type: Article

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