vii Conference Committee

NONLINEAR FILTERING FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION

3 Optical processors for scene analysis

D. P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

27 Distortion invariant pattern recognition using Fourier plane nonlinear filters

B. Javidi, D. Painchaud, Univ. of Connecticut

57 Fingerprint recognition using binary nonlinear joint transform correlators

T.J.Grycewicz, Rome Lab.

OPTICAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS

81 Encrypted optical memory using double random phase encoding

B. Javidi, G. Zhang, J. Li, Univ. of Connecticut

88 Optical neural networks for classification into arbitrary classes

H. H. Arsenault, S. Chang, P. Gagne, COPL/Univ. Laval (Canada); O. Gualdron, Univ. de Santander (Columbia)

103 Phase-only SLMs for optical pattern recognition and security systems

Y. Sheng, COPL/Univ. Laval (Canada); L. G. Neto, Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil); D. Roberge, L. Shen, MYTEC Technologies Inc. (Canada); G. P. Hus, COPL/Univ. Laval (Canada)

DEVICES FOR OPTICAL PROCESSING

131 Solid optics: a review

H. J. Caulfield, M. P. Schamschula, Alabama A&M Univ.

143 Multiple quantum well optical modulators and spatial light modulators

F. C. Jain, S. K. Cheung, Univ. of Connecticut

OPTICAL MEMORY AND APPLICATIONS

181 Nonvolatile holographic storage in photorefractive materials

D. Psaltis, X. An, G. Barbastathis, A. Adibi, E. Chuang, California Institute of Technology

214 Optical neural networks using electron trapping materials

A. D.McAulay, J. Wang, Lehigh Univ.

240 Review of correlation filters and their application for scene matching

A. Mahalanobis, Hughes Missile Systems Co.