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Dual Use of Image Based Tracking Techniques: Laser Eye Surgery and Low Vision ProsthesisWith a concentration on Fourier optics pattern recognition, we have developed several methods of tracking objects in dynamic imagery to automate certain space applications such as orbital rendezvous and spacecraft capture, or planetary landing. We are developing two of these techniques for Earth applications in real-time medical image processing. The first is warping of a video image, developed to evoke shift invariance to scale and rotation in correlation pattern recognition. The technology is being applied to compensation for certain field defects in low vision humans. The second is using the optical joint Fourier transform to track the translation of unmodeled scenes. Developed as an image fixation tool to assist in calculating shape from motion, it is being applied to tracking motions of the eyeball quickly enough to keep a laser photocoagulation spot fixed on the retina, thus avoiding collateral damage.
Document ID
19960021747
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Juday, Richard D.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX United States)
Barton, R. Shane
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Dual-Use Space Technology Transfer Conference and Exhibition
Volume: 1
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Accession Number
96N25022
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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