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SUMMARY:Optical image processing  for the future... - Dr Tim Wilkinson - C
 UED
DTSTART:20111020T173000Z
DTEND:20111020T190000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Optical image processing has promised much since its inception
  in the late sixties.  Since then optical correlation has been used in are
 as from pattern recognition through to optical computing\, but it has alwa
 ys been shadowed by Moore's law and the inevitable development of high spe
 ed electronics.  One area where optical image processing has always had an
  advantage is in applications where the quantity of data to be processing 
 is so large that it is only really feasible to process it with a parallel 
 technology such as optics.\n\nRecently we have developed an optical free s
 pace processing engine capable of performing first and second order differ
 ential operations in parallel in both 2D and 3D .  This has created a lot 
 of interest in the computational fluid dynamics arena where such operation
 s areroutine on very large and cumbersome datasets.  In this talk we shall
  discuss the continuing battle between optics and electronics in data proc
 essing applications and show that optical technology still has a clear edg
 e.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engineering Departmen
 t\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
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