Optical processing at MICOM

The Weapons Sciences Directorate of the U.S. Army Missile Command has been directly involved in research and development of optical processing technology for several years. Extensive publications have described developments in several key areas of research. Current efforts are aimed toward military applications, for which optical processing offers great potential for improved speed and performance in automatic target detection, location, and recognition. Research is directed toward overcoming the remaining technical issues. Topics of investigation include: spatial light modulator performance and use; photorefractive materials for data storage; Vander Lugt, joint transform, and acousto-optic correlator designs; neural network implementations for morphological transforms, region and texture segmentation, rapid training techniques; and composite filter design, development, and implementation. This paper describes progress and accomplishments in some of these areas, with projections for future work.© (1993) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.