Toolkit for Tactical Visualizations that Represent Uncertainty Dynamically

Abstract

Decisions are usually made under uncertainty, so displaying uncertainty information is very important to decision-making. In the past, uncertainty information associated with tactical symbols was ignored. Recent research explored uncertainty display techniques and investigated the capabilities of the human perceptual system. However, most previous studies focused on static display, and limited techniques. In this report, we investigated dynamic display of uncertainty information of tactical symbols. A comparison study was carried out for three display methods: rectangular bar, color saturation, and blurred image. This report reviews uncertainty display methods, describes the design and development of the software toolkit, and discusses the experimental procedure and results. A new method for dynamic display of uncertainty, an automatic feature based morphing, was also developed and included in the report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA487289

Entities

People

  • Celestine A. Ntuen
  • Xinyu Zhang

Organizations

  • North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Computers
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • North Carolina
  • Probability
  • Saturation
  • Systems Engineering
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visualizations

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Vision.