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Binary nonlinear joint transform correlator performance with different thresholding methods under unknown

B Javidi, J Li, A H Fazlollahi

    Applied Optics
    |November 2, 2010
    PubMed
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    Binary joint transform correlators (BJTCs) show improved correlation performance with unknown illumination. A spatial frequency dependent thresholding method makes BJTCs invariant to uniform input-image light, confirmed by simulations and experiments.

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