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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

2000

Optical correlation

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Circular Optimal Trade-Off And Distance-Classifier Correlation Filters, Samuel Peter Kozaitis, Sila Thangwaritorn May 2000

Circular Optimal Trade-Off And Distance-Classifier Correlation Filters, Samuel Peter Kozaitis, Sila Thangwaritorn

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

We use circular versions of advanced distortion-invariant filters such as optimal trade-off synthetic discriminant function and distance classifier correlation filters to obtain rotation invariance with an optical correlator. The filter noise performance is compared using a common measure of probability of error because the filters have different characteristics. The filters are real-valued so they can be implemented on a variety of SLMs. The circular symmetry of the filters significantly decreases their computational requirement.