title: Optical cellular continuous logic array for gray-scale image processing.
abstract: A new optical cellular continuous-logic array for gray-scale image processing is presented. The array involves two steps of multichannel neighborhood ranked-order operations and interimage threshold decomposition continuous-logic operation. Image processing transforms available from this array include gray-scale morphological transforms, stack-nonstack filters, and gray-scale hit-or-miss transforms. An area-coding technique is used to implement neighborhood operations in a correlation thresholding system. A similar one-channel grayscale-correlation and multithresholding system is used for interimage threshold decomposition continuous logic. Primary experimental results are given.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu