Diffractive 3D grating-optical image processing: an interference-optical Volterra filter resonator?

摘要

Intelligent image processing will take a more and more important part of the future opto-electronic sensor business. To filter relevant information out of a large data base and to memorize selectively the most important messages become critical features and the camera-like systems cannot reach the goal. A 'cortical' image processor, similar to how human vision and perception are functioning, is requested. This particularly in a world where global video-communication becomes an ubiquitous standard. The search for new filtering methods and more intelligent visual information processors therefore remains an item of topical interest for R+D-activities.