Accession Number:

ADA110322

Title:

Acousto-Optic Technology for Topographic Feature Extraction and Image Analysis.

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. Oct 79-Feb 81,

Corporate Author:

DEFT LABS INC EAST SYRACUSE NY

Personal Author(s):

• Moyer,Alan L.

Report Date:

1981-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

210.0

Abstract:

This report contains all findings of the acousto-optic technology study for feature extraction conducted by Deft Laboratories Inc. for the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories. The objective of this program was to develop, analyze and evaluate theoretical concepts and strategies for topographic feature extraction and image analysis using acousto-optic A-O technology. A conclusion of this study was that A-O devices are potentially capable of implementing the feature extraction prefilter function very efficiently. Since the prefilter is the most computational intensive portion of the feature extraction process this is a significant result. The best application of A-O devices is in the implementation of transform-based prefilter algorithms. Under this contract transform-based algorithms were identified and developed which are invariant to feature translation, rotation and scale. This invariance is highly desirable since it reduces the number of distinct feature signatures which must be processed by the decision processor.

Descriptors:

• *IMAGE PROCESSING
• *ACOUSTOOPTICS
• ALGORITHMS
• FUNCTIONS
• MICROPROCESSORS
• TOPOGRAPHY
• ENGINEERING
• SCALE
• IMAGES
• EXTRACTION
• FILTERS
• ARMY
• INVARIANCE

Subject Categories:

• Computer Hardware
• Acoustics
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE