Wavelet-modified fringe-adjusted joint transform correlator

“In this paper, we implement a wavelet-modified fringe-adjusted joint transform correlator (JTC) for real-time target recognition applications. In real-time situation the input scene is captured using a CCD/thermal camera. The obtained joint power spectrum is multiplied with a pre-synthesized fringe-adjusted filter and the resultant function is processed with an appropriately scaled wavelet filter. The wavelet-modified fringe-adjusted JTC has been found to yield better results in comparison to the conventional fringe-adjusted JTC. To suppress the undesired strong dc, the resultant function is differentiated. Differential processing the wavelet-modified fringe-adjusted joint power spectrum removes the zero-order spectra and hence improves the detection efficiency. To focus the correlation terms in different planes in order to capture one of the desired autocorrelation peaks and discard the strong dc and another autocorrelation peak, chirp-encoding technique has also been applied. Computer simulation and experimental results are presented. “