Target Detection with Color Versus Black and White Television

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to investigate target detection performance on color and black and white TV. Green, brown, and gray model tank targets were viewed under 25, 35, and 300 TV lines resolution against a green and a brown background on a terrain model. Target-to-background luminance contrasts studied were positive (targets lighter than the surround), negative (targets darker than the surround), and zero. Gray targets were found to be more detectable than either brown or green targets. Higher resolution improved performance about equally for both color and black and white TV, and targets lighter than the background were detected more easily than either negative or zero contrast targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA010126

Entities

People

  • Dan W. Wagner

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • California
  • Cameras
  • Color Television
  • Color Vision
  • Corporations
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Psychology
  • Recording Systems
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Terrain Models
  • Visual Perception

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.