The Effects of Pattern and Color on the Visual Detection of Camouflaged Vehicles

Abstract

Two camouflage experiments were conducted in which subjects searched for model armored personnel carriers placed singly on a terrain model. The effects of pattern contours, the number of colors used to paint the patterns, and the particular colors used on search times and detection probabilities were measured. Analyses of variance revealed no significant effects due to pattern contours or number of colors, while color per se was found to have a significant effect on search times. No significant differences were found between search times for an olive drab control target and pattern-painted targets. Search times and far visual acuity were found to be significantly correlated. It was concluded that pattern-painting does not affect target detection difficulty under the conditions tested in these experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADB004947

Entities

People

  • Hubert O. Whitehurst

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Biological Sciences
  • Detection
  • Field Tests
  • Instructions
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Terrain Models
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Visual Acuity
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Theoretical Analysis.