<title>Model observers for signal-known-statistically tasks (SKS)</title>

Model observers have been successfully applied to predict human visual detection performance for tasks in which the signal is known a priori and does not vary from trial to trial (signal known exactly task). Although well understood, the signal known exactly task does not reflect aspects of real-life tasks where the signal might vary and the observer does not have full knowledge of the signal parameters. In this paper, we investigate performance...