title: Three-dimensional object recognition using a quasi-correlator invariant to imaging distances.
abstract: We present a new method for performing electro-optical three-dimensional (3-D) object recognition under incoherent white-light illumination. Perspective projections of the 3-D scene are acquired from multiple points of view and then processed into a single complex two-dimensional modified Fresnel hologram of the scene. This hologram is processed with a single filter which is matched to a single object, so that all identical objects in the scene yield similar correlation peaks in the 3-D space with almost no dependency on the distances of the objects from the acquisition plane. The new method is demonstrated by experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. natis@ee.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Natan T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Shaked
authors.forename: Gideon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Segev
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosen