Engineering implementation of a hybrid optical correlator using SLMs

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-275

  Chang, S ^a   Grover, C P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic target identification; Machine vision; Optical correlator; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY AGILITY; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS; INVARIANCE; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

AUTOMATIC TARGET IDENTIFICATION; CORRELATORS CORRELATORS (JTC); OPTICAL CORRELATOR;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 2142757277     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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