Abstract

Cellular array is one of the strong candidates of the parallel architectures for optical computing. Recently, there were some reports on the cellular logic array architectures for binary image processing and their optical implementations,^1,2 In this paper, we propose a new and unified architecture of a cellular- morphologic two-layer logic array for binary image processing, which consists of a neighborhood connectivity changeable Boolean voting logic layer and a two-channel pattern logic layer. The array not only has more image processing functions than that available by the conventional cellular and morphologic operations but also has the ability to transform images, A compact optoelectronic system has been developed as the hardware.

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