We have demonstrated a morphological image processor composed of arrays of bistable optoelectronic transceivers which are connected in differential pairs and work as comparators. The use of differential pairs of optoelectronic thyristors suggested a dual rail architecture for this Photonic Morphological Image Processor (PMIP). The PMIP consists of a thresholding module, that decomposes grey level images into binary slices, and a binary morphological processing module. Morphological operations are performed within a neighbourhood defined by a structuring element implemented as a diffractive fan-out element. We demonstrate dilation and erosion operations performed at a 100 Hz frame rate for an image of 8x8 pixels and threshold decomposition of 6 grey level images is demonstrated at a 1,800 Hz rate. In this paper we also discuss the limitations of photonic morphological image processing with respect to speed, bandwidth, parallelism and architecture.
Photonic morphological image processing
Optoelectronic Information Processing: Optics for Information Systems: A Critical Review ; 2002 ; Valencia,Spain
Proc. SPIE ; 10302
2001-11-30
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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