Two approaches, coherent and incoherent, for the optical implementation of active contours

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5557, Issue , 2004, Pages 203-215

  Ambs, P ^a   Hueber, E ^a   Matwyschuk, A ^b   Bigue L ^a   Christnacher, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^b Institut Franco Allemand de Recherches de Saint Louis   (France)

Author keywords

Active contour processing; Coherent correlator; Incoherent correlator; Optical information processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACTIVE CONTOUR PROCESSING; COHERENT CORRELATOR; INCOHERENT CORRELATOR; OPTOELECTRONIC MULTICHANNEL PROCESSORS;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 14944356384     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.561058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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