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“SEMIANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT”
by Harry C. Andrews
March 31, 1978
This Technical report summarizes the image understanding and image processing research activities performed by the Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California during the period of 1 October 1977 to 31 March 1978 under Contract No. F33615-76-C-1203 with the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Processing Techniques Office.
The research program has as its primary purpose the development of techniques and systems for efficiently processing, transmitting, and analyzing images and two dimensional data arrays. Four task areas are reported: Image Understanding Projects; Image Processing Projects; Smart Sensor Projects; Recent Ph.D Dissertations. The Image Understanding Projects involve the development of generalized processing systems for analyzing images and extracting salient information. The Image Processing Projects include research on novel image coding methods, image restoration, vision modeling, and nonlinear two dimensional optical filtering techniques. The Smart Sensors Projects comprise investigations of electronic and optical processing methods integrated with imaging sensors to perform feature and symbolic extraction.