Summary: Assessing Night Vision Goggle Performance in Security
Applications
Robert S. Allisona
, Pearl Gutermana
, Yuichi Sakanoa
, James E. Zachera
, Paul Thomasb
, Sion
Jenningsc
, Todd Macudac
a
Centre for Vision Research, York University
b
Topaz Technology Inc
c
National Research Council of Canada
ABSTRACT
Police and border security operations are an important and growing application of night
vision devices (NVDs). NVDs improve visibility at night but suffer from a variety of perceptual
artifacts and human factors issues. In a series of helicopter-based flight trials we analyzed subject

Source: Allison, Robert - Department of Computer Science, York University (Toronto)

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Biology and Medicine