title: Binary zone-plate array for a parallel joint transform correlator applied to face recognition.
abstract: Taking advantage of small aberrations, high efficiency, and compactness, we developed a new, to our knowledge, design procedure for a binary zone-plate array (BZPA) and applied it to a parallel joint transform correlator for the recognition of the human face. Pairs of reference and unknown images of faces are displayed on a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator (SLM), Fourier transformed by the BZPA, intensity recorded on an optically addressable SLM, and inversely Fourier transformed to obtain correlation signals. Consideration of the bandwidth allows the relations among the channel number, the numerical aperture of the zone plates, and the pattern size to be determined. Experimentally a five-channel parallel correlator was implemented and tested successfully with a 100-person database. The design and the fabrication of a 20-channel BZPA for phonetic character recognition are also included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical and Physical Science, Japan Women's University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8681, Japan. kodate@jwu.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kodate
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thapliya