OPTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ONE-CHANNEL HIT-MISS TRANSFORM USING POLARIZATION ENCODING

A one-channel optical hit-miss transform processor is proposed, which is based on incoherent correlation with a polarization-encoding method to code the input image and structuring element pair and electronic t hresholding. The polarization-encoding-based rank-order hit-miss trans form, which yields better performance in the presence of noise and clu tter, can be carried out by using variable levels. Experimental result s are also given.