Optical Pattern Recognition

A comprehensive review of optical pattern recognition techniques and implementations, for graduate students and researchers.

Francis T. S. Yu (Edited by), Suganda Jutamulia (Edited by)

9780521088626, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

460 pages, 306 b/w illus. 5 tables
23.2 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.73 kg

"Graduate students, beginning researchers, opitical engineers, and machine vision specialists can use each chpater as an introduction to the particular subject covered...Thanks to the book's interdisciplinary character, seasoned researchers and practitioners will also find new insights and new ideas, as well as a global overview of this interesting and dynamic optics subfield...I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in optical pattern recognition." Optics & Photonics Sept 2001

This book provides a comprehensive review of optical pattern recognition, covering theoretical aspects as well as details of practical implementations and signal processing techniques. The first chapter is devoted to pattern recognition performed with optical correlators. Later chapters discuss approaches based on neural networks, wavelet transforms and the fractional Fourier transform. The book also covers nonlinear filter methods and optical-electronic hybrid systems. The final part of the book deals with the devices and materials employed in modern systems, such as photorefractive crystals, microlasers, and liquid crystal spatial light modulators. The book gives many examples of working systems that integrate optics, electronics and computers, and it covers a range of developments from mathematical theories to novel optical materials. It will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in optical engineering and machine vision.

Contributors
Preface
1. Pattern recognition with optics Francis T. S. Yu and Don A. Gregory
2. Hybrid neural networks for nonlinear pattern recognition Taiwei Lu
3. Wavelets, optics, and pattern recognition Yao Li and Yunglong Sheng
4. Applications of the fractional Fourier transform to optical pattern recognition David Mendlovic, Zeev Zalesky and Haldum M. Oxaktas
5. Optical implementation of mathematical morphology Tien-Hsin Chao
6. Nonlinear optical correlators with improved discrimination capability for object location and recognition Leonid P. Yaroslavsky
7. Distortion-invariant quadratic filters Gregory Gheen
8. Composite filter synthesis as applied to pattern recognition Shizhou Yin and Guowen Lu
9. Iterative procedures in electro-optical pattern recognition Joseph Shamir
10. Optoelectronic hybrid system for three-dimensional object pattern recognition Guoguang Mu, Mingzhe Lu and Ying Sun
11. Applications of photrefractive devices in optical pattern recognition Ziangyang Yang
12. Optical pattern recognition with microlasers Eung-Gi Paek
13. Optical properties and applications of bacteriorhodopsin Q. Wang Song and Yu-He Zhang
14. Liquid-crystal spatial light modulators Aris Tanone and Suganda Jutamulia
15. Representations of fully complex functions on real-time spatial light modulators Robert W. Cohn and Laurence G. Hassbrook
Index.

Subject Areas: Optical physics [PHJ]