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Gaze-Contingent Center-Surround Fusion of Infrared Images to Facilitate Visual Search for Human Targets
Mackenzie G. Glaholt
Grace Sim
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.14.HVEI-149  Published Online :  January 2017
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We investigated gaze-contingent fusion of infrared imagery during visual search. Eye movements were monitored while subjects searched for and identified human targets in images captured simultaneously in the short-wave (SWIR) and long-wave (LWIR) infrared bands. Based on the subject's gaze position, the search display was updated such that imagery from one sensor was continuously presented to the subject's central visual field ("center") and another sensor was presented to the subject's non-central visual field ("surround"). Analysis of performance data indicated that, compared to the other combinations, the scheme featuring SWIR imagery in the center region and LWIR imagery in the surround region constituted an optimal combination of the SWIR and LWIR information: it inherited the superior target detection performance of LWIR imagery and the superior target identification performance of SWIR imagery. This demonstrates a novel method for efficiently combining imagery from two infrared sources as an alternative to conventional image fusion. © 2017 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada.

Journal Title : Electronic Imaging
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Mackenzie G. Glaholt, Grace Sim, "Gaze-Contingent Center-Surround Fusion of Infrared Images to Facilitate Visual Search for Human Targets"  in Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging,  2017,  pp 230 - 235,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.14.HVEI-149

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Articles
Gaze-Contingent Center-Surround Fusion of Infrared Images to Facilitate Visual Search for Human Targets
GlaholtMackenzie G.
SimGrace
29012017
2017
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230
235
2017
We investigated gaze-contingent fusion of infrared imagery during visual search. Eye movements were monitored while subjects searched for and identified human targets in images captured simultaneously in the short-wave (SWIR) and long-wave (LWIR) infrared bands. Based on the subject's gaze position, the search display was updated such that imagery from one sensor was continuously presented to the subject's central visual field ("center") and another sensor was presented to the subject's non-central visual field ("surround"). Analysis of performance data indicated that, compared to the other combinations, the scheme featuring SWIR imagery in the center region and LWIR imagery in the surround region constituted an optimal combination of the SWIR and LWIR information: it inherited the superior target detection performance of LWIR imagery and the superior target identification performance of SWIR imagery. This demonstrates a novel method for efficiently combining imagery from two infrared sources as an alternative to conventional image fusion. © 2017 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada.
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