The visibility of the human eye in blowing snow with the effect of suspended snow particles’ afterimages-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The visibility of the human eye in blowing snow with the effect of suspended snow particles’ afterimages

Published:2022-12-20 Issue:1 Volume:21 Page:76-85
ISSN:1348-8503
Container-title:International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research
language:en
Short-container-title:Int. J. ITS Res.

Author:

Sakurai Toshimitsu^ORCID,Takechi Hirotaka,Kokubu Tetsuya,Matsuzawa Masaru

Abstract

AbstractAfterimages of snow particles in blowing snow may cause lower visibility of the human eye compared to images captured by a digital video camera. However, the impact of the afterimage of snow particles on the visibility of the human eye in blowing snow has not been investigated quantitatively. Here we examined visibility taking the effect of afterimages of snow particles on the human eye into consideration. By considering the duration range of afterimages, and changing the windspeed while the snow density remains constant, our numerical model of visibility for the visual duration range of 0.12 to 0.04 s could accurately explain the visibility of the human eye previously observed in blowing snow.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Neuroscience,Computer Science Applications,Software,Automotive Engineering,Applied Mathematics,Control and Systems Engineering,Aerospace Engineering,Information Systems

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13177-022-00338-w.pdf

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