Optical correlation recognition of infrared target based on wavelet multi-scale product

摘要

As one of the most successful optical correlation recognizers, hybrid optoelectronic joint transform correlator (HOJTC) has received more and more attraction than the purely electronic way in the field of target detection and recognition. It primarily because that HOJTC has the advantages of optics as well as those of electronics. This kind of combination determines that the performance of HOJTC is closely related to optical configuration of system and digital image processing technology. For the stability of optical part, a lot of efforts concerning image processing methods have been made in recent years for improving the power of recognition of HOJTC. Edge contours play a decisive role in target detection. In order to obtain adequate contour feature of target, the solution of edge extraction based on wavelet multi-scale product is proposed. Normalized maximum and argument of each point could be defined utilizing wavelet coefficient of image. Both of them contain the relation of coefficient product between each scale. Edge points synthesized the information of multi-scale are extracted by searching local maxima along the direction of gradient. The way adopted fully exploited the character of multi-resolution of wavelet. Simulation experiments and optical experiments indicate that the energy of correlation peaks is obviously enhanced after the original image is processed by wavelet multi-scale product, and it successfully realizes detection and recognition of infrared target.