Title
Design and evaluation of (urban) camouflage
Author
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Hogervorst, M.A.
Toet, A.
Jacobs, P.
Publication year
2010
Abstract
An international group consisting of several NATO nations participated in a trial in which urban camouflage was developed and compared. First, photographs were taken in and around a small town (arid climate). Next, the different groups derived urban camouflage patterns from these photographs. We applied our method for deriving a camouflage pattern from a set of (characteristic) background images to the imagery. Eleven different patterns were made into prototype camouflage suits. Panoramic images of all prototype suits were taken on 36 locations in the environment in which the background images were taken. We used these images in a search experiment with human observers for evaluating camouflage performance of the various patterns. The pattern we developed featured among the two best performing patterns, with good performance indicated by low chance of detection and long search times. The results show that our method for deriving a camouflage pattern from background imagery works well. © 2010 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Subject
Camouflage design
Conspicuity
Evaluation
Human performance
Search
Visual camouflage
Human
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.850423
TNO identifier
429060
ISBN
9780819481269
ISSN
0277-786X
Source
Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXI, 6 April 2010 through 8 April 2010, Orlando, FL, 7662 (7662)
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Document type
conference paper