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Visual Psychophysics

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Thermal Imaging Systems

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Abstract

The problem to be addressed in this chapter is the following: how much can the electro-optical image deviate from “reality” before the human visual system becomes disoriented and cannot efficiently extract information from it? This question cannot be answered unambiguously today, but to approach the answer we will consider the following visual processes and effects:

  • • resolving power and spatial frequency response;

  • • perception of noise;

  • • image magnification;

  • • discrimination of signals from noise and/or background;

  • • disagreeability of effects such as too large or small field of view, too fast scene motion, raster, and flicker.

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Lloyd, J.M. (1975). Visual Psychophysics. In: Thermal Imaging Systems. Optical Physics and Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1182-7_4

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