Experimental and simulation studies on the performance of binary and gray-valued joint transform correlators under poor illumination conditions and nonoverlapping background noise

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1918-1929

  Pati, G S ^a,b   Singh, Kehar ^a,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UTKAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c DRDO   (India)

Author keywords

Fringe and modified fringe adjusted filters; Joint transform correlator; Sliding window local median threshold; Spatial light modulator; Spatial frequency dependent threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043087308     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601398     Document Type: Article

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