Calibration of a time-to-detection model using data from visual search experiments

Harald Ruda; James Hoffman; Magnus Snorrason

doi:10.1117/12.392542

24 July 2000 Calibration of a time-to-detection model using data from visual search experiments

Harald Ruda, James Hoffman, Magnus Snorrason

Proceedings Volume 4029, Targets and Backgrounds VI: Characterization, Visualization, and the Detection Process; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392542
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Using a model of visual search that predicts fixation probabilities for hard-to-see targets in naturalistic images, it is possible to stochastically generate fixation sequences and time to detection for targets in these images. The purpose of the current work is to calibrate some of the parameters of a time to detection model. In particular, this work is an attempt to elucidate the parameters of the proposed fixation memory model, the strength and decay parameters. The methods used to perform this calibration consist chiefly of comparison of the stochastic model with both experimental data and a theoretical analysis of a simplified scenario. The experimental data have been collected from ten observers performing a visual search experiment. During the experiment, eye fixations were tracked with an ISCAN infrared camera system. The visual search stimuli required fixation on target for detection (i.e. hard-to-detect stimuli). The experiment studied re-fixations of previously fixated targets ,where the fixation memory failed. The theoretical analysis is based on a simplified scenario that parallels the experimental setup, with a fixed number, N, of equally probable objects. It is possible to derive analytical expressions for the re- fixation probability in this case. The results of the analysis can be used in three different ways: (1) to verify the implementation of the stochastic model, (2) to estimate the stochastic parameters of the model (i.e., number of fixations sequences to generate), and (3) to calibrate the fixation memory parameters by fitting the experimental data.

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Harald Ruda, James Hoffman, and Magnus Snorrason "Calibration of a time-to-detection model using data from visual search experiments", Proc. SPIE 4029, Targets and Backgrounds VI: Characterization, Visualization, and the Detection Process, (24 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392542

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Target detection

Visualization

Data modeling

Visual process modeling

Calibration

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Stochastic processes

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