Diffractive-optical correlators: chances to make optical image preprocessing as intelligent as human vision

Norbert Lauinger

doi:10.1117/12.564541

25 October 2004 Diffractive-optical correlators: chances to make optical image preprocessing as intelligent as human vision

Norbert Lauinger

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Proceedings Volume 5608, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.564541
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

The human eye is a good model for the engineering of optical correlators. Three prominent intelligent functionalities in human vision could in the near future become realized by a new diffractive-optical hardware design of optical imaging sensors: (1) Illuminant-adaptive RGB-based color Vision, (2) Monocular 3D Vision based on RGB data processing, (3) Patchwise fourier-optical Object-Classification and Identification. The hardware design of the human eye has specific diffractive-optical elements (DOE's) in aperture and in image space and seems to execute the three jobs at -- or not far behind -- the loci of the images of objects.

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Norbert Lauinger "Diffractive-optical correlators: chances to make optical image preprocessing as intelligent as human vision", Proc. SPIE 5608, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.564541

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