Nonlinear compansive noise reduction in joint transform correlators

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-74

  Khoury, J ^a,b,d   Asimellis, George ^c   Gianino, Peter D ^a,d   Woods, Charles L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Lartec Inc   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SPIE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Correlators; Expansion; Joint transform correlators; Photorefractive; Recognition techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004572565     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601719     Document Type: Article

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