Vehicle Identification and Tracking Using a Coherent Optical Correlator.

Abstract

This report describes experiments with a coherent matched filter optical correlator that demonstrates the feasibility of compact correlators identifying vehicles from any perspective and tracking them in real time. The number of required separate filters are greatly reduced with multiplexing schemes. Any sensor with resolution equivalent to that of consumer TV components is adequate to form the correlator input image. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 19, 1979
Accession Number
ADA066146

Entities

People

  • B. D. Guenther
  • C. R. Christensen
  • J. Upatnieks

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Character Recognition
  • Correlators
  • Detectors
  • Filters
  • Identification
  • Image Converters
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Matched Filters
  • Modulators
  • Optical Correlators
  • Recognition
  • Vehicles
  • Video Tapes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.