Matched filtering in visual perception and information matching in iconics

This paper presents the content of the ideas of matched filtering in system s for communication and image processing, along with a brief history of the ir appearance. The information matching of the structure of an image and it s reception, developed in the new scientific paradigm of iconics, is regard ed as a theoretical and philosophical generalization of the ideas of matche d filtering. (C) 1999 The Optical Society of America. [S1070-9762(99)00209- 2].