PARALLEL OPTICAL-IMAGE PROCESSING WITH IMAGE-LOGIC ALGEBRA AND A POLYNOMIAL APPROACH

An interesting relationship between an optical parallel-processing sin gle-instruction-multiple-data generic language, called image-logic alg ebra, and a polynomial approach for processing binary images by electr onic computers is shown. Using only two basic operations of the ILA, o ne can reformulate a number of algorithms developed earlier in the pol ynomial approach into algorithms in the ILA environment. Thus a large number of new algorithms for parallel optical processing of binary ima ges can be developed in the ILA environment that are fast and efficien t.