Innovative Methods for High Resolution Imaging

Abstract

The investigators report on their findings, recent publication, and presentations in the areas of lenslet array imaging, wavefront encoding, and non-negative matrix factorization for material component (end-member) identification. Lenslet arrays enable a number of imaging modalities, including amplitude diversity, polarization diversity, wavelength diversity (multi-spectral data) and phase diversity. Each of these techniques extends traditional imaging by modifying the data acquisition to implicitly capture features that would otherwise be undetectable. Post-processing converts implicitly captured or encoded information to a form suitable for human or automated identification tasks. The problem of material identification from multi-spectral image data (blind source separation) can be formulated as a non-negative matrix factorization problem or as a tensor factorization problem. Non-uniqueness and numerical stability are frequently difficult issues. We report here on recent progress on using stochastic constraints for improving the numerical stability of the computation. Current (2009) and prior results relating to pupil phase encoding were adapted to mitigate a frequency-agile pulsed laser attack against CCD-based cameras.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 02, 2012
Accession Number
ADA570451

Entities

People

  • R. J. Plemmons
  • T. C. Torgersen
  • V. P. Pauca

Organizations

  • Wake Forest University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Biometric Security
  • Biometrics
  • Computations
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Linear Algebra
  • Low Resolution
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Signal Processing

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Linear Algebra

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy