Temporal/spatial tracking requirements for tracking humans

Aaron L. Robinson; Brian Miller; Steve Moyer; Chun Ra

doi:10.1117/12.720335

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30 April 2007 Temporal/spatial tracking requirements for tracking humans

Aaron L. Robinson, Brian Miller, Steve Moyer, Chun Ra

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Proceedings Volume 6543, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XVIII; 65430H (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.720335
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

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This paper details the development, experimentation, collected data and the results of research designed to gain an understanding of the temporal and spatial image collection guidelines for tracking humans. More specifically, a quantitative understanding of the relationship between human observer performance and the spatial and temporal resolution is sought. Performance is measured as a function of the number of video frames per second, imager spatial resolution and the ability of the observer to accurately determine the destination of a moving human target. The research is restricted to data and imagery collected from altitudes typical of modern low to mid altitude persistent surveillance platforms using a wide field of view. The ability of the human observer to perform an unaided track of a human target was determined by their completion of carefully designed perception experiments. In these experiments, the observers were presented with simulated imagery from Night Vision's EOSim urban terrain simulator. The details of the simulated targets and backgrounds, the design of the experiments and their associated results are included in this treatment.

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Aaron L. Robinson, Brian Miller, Steve Moyer, and Chun Ra "Temporal/spatial tracking requirements for tracking humans", Proc. SPIE 6543, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XVIII, 65430H (30 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.720335

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