Quantifying Human Performance of a Dynamic Military Target Detection Task: AnApplication of the Theory of Signal Detection

摘要

As crew aiding technologies are developed to assist military aviators inperforming complex target detection tasks, evaluation metrics must be developed which are common to both human operators and automatic target recognition (ATR) systems so that performance comparisons can be efficiently conducted. This research introduced a novel application of Theory of Signal Detection (TSD) to the dynamic, multiple target detection scenario, and a new method of evaluating human performance was developed by adapting an established ATR evaluation method to human subject performance. A linear relationship was discovered between the TSD metric and the new evaluation metric, validating the new evaluation method. The new method provided a common metric for evaluating both human and ATR performance of multiple target detection tasks.