Improved Joint Transform Correlator Performance Through Spectral Domain Thresholding

September 1998


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Improved Joint Transform Correlator Performance Through Spectral Domain Thresholding

Outline

Motivation

Background Optical object recognition

Background Joint Fourier transform correlation

Background Operation of the joint transform correlator (JTC)

Background Correlation plane signal

Background Theoretical model of the ‘linear’ JTC

Spectral domain thresholding

Binary JTC simulations Input image sets

Binary JTC simulations Input plane positions

Spectral domain thresholding

Optimal uniform threshold

Optical Implementation

Conclusions

Future directions

Unthresholded JTC Multiple inputs

Unthresholded JTC Rotation sensitivity

JTC : Input & output planes

Author: T. Naughton

Email: tom.naughton@may.ie

Home Page: http://www.cs.may.ie/~tnaughton