Perceptual evaluation of different nighttime imaging modalities

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2000

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Toet, A ^a   Schoumans, N ^a   Uspeert, J K ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

detection; Image fusion; infrared; intensified visual; recognition; situational awareness; visual performance

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; INFRARED RADIATION;

HORIZON DETECTIONS; INFRARED CAMERAS; INTENSIFIED VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; RECOGNITION; SCENE RECOGNITION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; VISUAL PERFORMANCE;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 84894584789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IFIC.2000.862704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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