Search and Target Acquisition: Single Line of Sight Versus Wide Baseline Stereo

<title>Wide-baseline synthetic stereo imagery for human expert training</title>

“…Preliminary experimental results by our colleagues at ARL [1], using camouflaged humans as targets, indicate that: 1) observers presented with visible-band stereo image pairs produce approximately half the number of false alarms than if they are presented with single images, and 2) that the probability of detection can be increased by up to 20% by using an optimized stereo display.…”

“…ROC curves were not used for analysis and military vehicles were not used as targets in the above research [1]. But to collect the data necessary to do an evaluation of the application of stereo image pairs as an aid for target detection and clutter reduction would be expensive and time consuming, and in the end would only provide data for a limited set of operating conditions and locations.…”

“…Finally, it is hoped that in the coming months we will be able to share our database with our ARL colleagues [1] and together complete the job of evaluating this new and promising technology.…”