***** Preliminary Call for Participation *****
WORKSHOP ON THE ASSESSMENT OF
CAMOUFLAGE, CONCEALMENT AND DECEPTION MEASURES
SCOPE
It is of great importance to know how effective Camouflage, Concealment,
and Deception (CCD) measures are, and to know why and when they work.
There are two different main approaches to the evaluation of CCD measures:
- a subjective approach through observer experiments, and
- an objective computational approach through image analysis.
There is currently a great need for "standard" and internationally accepted
methods and procedures to validate and evaluate CCD measures, and to indicate
their military operational effectiveness.
There is also a need for descriptions, methods, and models for CCD effects
to enable their incorporation in wargames, automatic target recognition and
detection (ATR) algorithms, simulation models, and for Operations Research
(OR) studies investigating CCD effectiveness.
The main objective of this workshop is to join both
- international experts from the defense, industry and academic communities
who are actively involved or very much interested in the development of
computational and psychophysical approaches to visual target signature
analysis, and
- those involved with the optimization and procurement of CCD equipment and
techniques, and with modelling of CCD measures and effects in wargames,
(ATR) algorithms, simulation and OR models
This workshop will review recent developments in this field.
Special emphasis will be on visual target acquisition models and target
distinctness metrics based on principles of human vision, and their
capability to quantify the effects of CCD measures.
The workshop will consist of topical sessions.
Each session will start with an invited tutorial on a model or typical
approach to the quantification and evaluation of CCD measures.
The tutorial will be followed by user presentations, highlighting
practical problems and evaluation results.
Each session will close with a moderated panel discussion. Panels will
include researchers who are actively involved in the development of
techniques to quantify the effects of CCD measures, and those who have
practical experience with the discussed techniques.
The aim of the discussions is to identify the needs of the users, and
the validity and limits of applicability of the different approaches,
and to delineate the direction of future developments and research.
AIM
This workshop attempts to:
- identify valid principles to assess the effectiveness of CCD measures,
- identify evaluation tools for the optimization and procurement
of CCD equipment and techniques,
This may lead to
- improved modelling of CCD measures and effects in
wargames, (ATR) algorithms, simulation and OR models,
- new analytical methods for camouflage assessment using recorded imagery,
TOPICS
- Calibration, validation and verification (CVV) of target acquisition models
- Computational models of human vision
- Human performance models for sensors and camouflage evaluation
- Target acquisition models for man-in-the-loop systems
- Neural networks and fuzzy logic models of target acquisition
- Observer testing and experimental design for CVV
- Photorealism metrics for target and background simulation
- Search and target acquisition models for static and dynamic scenes
PROCEEDINGS
The tutorial papers will be available in print at the beginning
of the workshop.
Together with the edited panel discussions and user presentations they
will appear in bookform after the workshop.
TARGET DISTINCTNESS QUANTIFICATION CONTEST
This contest is to be held in conjunction with the workshop.
A set of fully documented digital images will be provided on request.
Participants should apply their method(s) to this data set.
Methods will be judged on the basis of a selected set of performance metrics.
The author of the method with the highest overall performance score will
receive an honorary plaque and will be invited to present the method at the
workshop.
TENTATIVE DATE AND LOCATION
7-10 June 1998, Driebergen, The Netherlands.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Alexander Toet
TNO Human Factors Research Institute Phone: (+)31-3463-56237
Kampweg 5 Fax: (+)31-3463-53977
NL 3769 DE Soesterberg email: toet@tm.tno.nl
The Netherlands
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and the degree of your commitment as indicated below:
___ tutorial
___ short presentation
___ poster
___ demonstration
___ researcher/developer
___ optimization of CCD meaasures
___ procurement of CCD equipment
___ modelling of CCD measures and effects in wargames,
(ATR) algorithms, simulation and OR models
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___ reasonably sure
___ definite
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Alexander Toet
TNO Human Factors Research Institute Phone: (+)31-3463-56237
Kampweg 5 Fax: (+)31-3463-53977
NL 3769 DE Soesterberg email: toet@tm.tno.nl
The Netherlands