Modified fringe-adjusted joint transform correlation to accommodate noise in the input scene

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 286-296

  Wang, RuiKang K ^a   Shang, Lin ^a   Chatwin, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fringe adjusted filter; Joint transform correlation; Power spectrum; Scene noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007801941     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000286     Document Type: Article

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