Color vision deficiencies and camouflage: a comparative study between normal and CVD observers
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Martínez Domingo, Miguel Ángel; Galdón, Alba; Gómez Robledo, Luis; Huertas Roa, Rafael; Hernánez Andrés, Javier; Valero Benito, Eva MaríaEditorial
Optica
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2022-04-08Referencia bibliográfica
Miguel Ángel Martínez-Domingo... [et al.]. "Color vision deficiencies and camouflage: a comparative study between normal and CVD observers," Opt. Express 30, 13699-13713 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.451525]
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Spanish Government FIS2017-89258-PResumen
There is a belief that observers with color vision deficiencies (CVD) perform better in
detecting camouflaged objects than normal observers. Some studies have concluded contradictory
findings when studying the performance of normal and CVD observers in the camouflage
detection tasks in different conditions. This work presents a literature review on this topic,
dividing it into three different and contradictory types of results: better performance for CVD,
for normal observers, or same performance. Besides, two psychophysical experiments have
been designed and carried out in a calibrated computer monitor on both normal and CVD
human observers to measure the searching times of the different types of observers needed to
find camouflaged stimuli in two different types of stimuli. Results show the trend that, in our
experimental conditions, normal observers need shorter searching times than CVD observers
in finding camouflaged stimuli both in images of natural scenes and in images with synthetic
stimuli.