Effect of Photo Degradation on Interpreter Performance
Abstract
When considered singly, scale, haze, and image motion had little effect on interpreter target detection performance. When two or more of these sources of degradation were present simultaneously, target detection performance deteriorated markedly. In general, the decrease in target detection accuracy obtained with increased photo degradation appears to be due more to erroneous classification of non-targets as targets than to the misclassification of targets as, non-targets. Target identification accuracy and completeness were significantly reduced by either unidimensional or multidimensional degrading conditions of the type used in this experiment. When photographic scale was small, the effect of other sources of degradation on interpreter performance was significantly greater than when photographic scale was large.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0763908
Entities
People
- Thomas E. Jeffrey
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences