Recognition Training for Ship Status Using Microcomputer Based CAI

Abstract

Microcomputer-based Computer Aided Instruction (CAl) has proven useful in many object recognition tasks, most recently for night attitude recognition of aircraft (Urban, Hottman, and Nelson, 1983;Hottman and Urban, 1983). The application in this study involved the presentation of navigation lights on ships at night from various approach directions. The ability to correctly identify the ship orientation and heading is ship status recognition. Ship outlines and navigation light configurations were used as two types of approaches to train ship status recognition.