Dr. George Kantor Profile

Dr. George Kantor

Postodctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon Univ

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Proceedings Article | 18 October 2001 Paper

Enhanced operator interface for hand-held landmine detector

Herman Herman, Jeffrey McMahill, George Kantor

Proceedings Volume 4394, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445412

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mining, Land mines, Human-machine interfaces, Video, Metals, Sensor performance, Radar, Detector development, Sensor fusion

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As landmines get harder to detect, the complexity of landmine detectors has also been increasing. To increase the probability of detection and decrease the false alarm rate of low metallic landmines, many detectors employ multiple sensing modalities, which include radar and metal detector. Unfortunately, the operator interface for these new detectors stays pretty much the same as for the older detectors. Although the amount of information that the new detectors acquire has increased significantly, the interface has been limited to a simple audio interface. We are currently developing a hybrid audiovisual interface for enhancing the overall performance of the detector. The hybrid audiovisual interface combines the simplicity of the audio output with the rich spatial content of the video display. It is designed to optimally present the output of the detector and also to give the proper feedback to the operator. Instead of presenting all the data to the operator simultaneously, the interface allows the operator to access the information as needed. This capability is critical to avoid information overload, which can significantly reduce the performance of the operator. The audio is used as the primary notification signal, while the video is used for further feedback, discrimination, localization and sensor fusion. The idea is to let the operator gets the feedback that he needs and enable him to look at the data in the most efficient way. We are also looking at a hybrid man-machine detection system which utilizes precise sweeping by the machine and powerful human cognitive ability. In such a hybrid system, the operator is free to concentrate on discriminant task, such as manually fusing the output of the different sensing modalities, instead of worrying about the proper sweep technique. In developing this concept, we have been using the virtual mien lane to validate some of these concepts. We obtained some very encouraging results form our preliminary test. It clearly shows that with the proper feedback, the performance of the operator can be improved significantly in a very short time.

Proceedings Article | 4 October 2001 Paper

Collection of environmental data from an airship platform

George Kantor, David Wettergreen, James Ostrowski, Sanjiv Singh

Proceedings Volume 4571, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.444171

KEYWORDS: Solar energy, Sensors, Solar cells, Environmental sensing, Air contamination, Global Positioning System, Carbon monoxide, Navigation systems, Skin, Gyroscopes

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Proceedings Article | 22 August 2000 Paper

Training and performance assessment of land mine detector operator using motion tracking and virtual mine lane

Herman Herman, Jeffrey McMahill, George Kantor

Proceedings Volume 4038, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396233

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mining, Land mines, Cameras, 3D modeling, Target detection, 3D acquisition, Human-machine interfaces, Video, Head

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