Modeling Human Eye-Movements for Military Simulations

Abstract

Models of eye movements of an observer searching for human targets are helpful in developing accurate models of target acquisition times and false positive detections. We develop a new model describing the distribution of gaze positions for an observer which includes both bottom-up (salience) and top-down (task dependent) factors. We validate the combined model against a bottom-up model from the literature and against the bottom up and top down parts alone using human performance data. The new model is shown to be significantly better. The new model requires a large amount of data about the terrain and target that is obtained directly from the 3D simulation through an automated process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA553674

Entities

People

  • Christian J. Darken
  • Patrick Jungkunz

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Combat Simulations
  • Computations
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Detection
  • Eye
  • Eye Movements
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Motor Skills
  • Observers
  • Simulations
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.