Optical Morphological and Production Systems

拟议的工作涉及：新的光学体系结构，允许结合新的光学器件(双稳阵列、铁电液晶等)。为其他应用程序开发，并提供新的算法和新的应用程序。它解决了需要不同的光学系统架构来实现不同操作的事实。拟议的工作将强调图标图像处理(在像素一级)、特征和符号处理(低级特征)、对象部分的处理(中级特征)和事实的信息处理(高级数据)。这使得光子学的并行性、多处理器和全球互连能力可用于信息/数据处理的所有级别(像素、特征、零件、符号和事实)。这种多功能灵活性在光学处理器中并不常见。

The proposed work involves: new optical architectures, allows incorporation of new optical devices (bistable arrays, ferroelectric liquid crystals, etc.) being developed for other applications, and provides new algorithms and new applications. It addresses the problem of the fact that different optical systems architectures are required to implement different operations. The proposed work will emphasize iconic image processing (at the pixel level), feature and symbolic processing (low level features), processing of object parts (medium level features), and information processing of facts (high level data). This allows the parallelism, multi-processor and global interconnection capability of photonics to be used at all levels (pixel, feature, part, symbolic, and facts) of information/data processing. Such multi-functional flexibility is not commonly found in optical processors.