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THE PROPOSED INNOVATION IS REAL-TIME HARDWARE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, AND MACHINE VISION THAT WILL ACHIEVE SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE INCREASES OVER CURRENT SYSTEMS BY IMPLEMENTING THE REDUCED SET OF OPERATIONS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT A SPECIFIC SET OF ALGORITHMS. THESE ALGORITHMS ARE THE "GENERIC NEIGHBORHOOD OPERATIONS" OF KOENDERINK AND VAN DOORN WHICH PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK FOR DESCRI ...

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There is a serious need for new types of position sensors for use with adaptive optics systems which employ segmented mirrors. In particular, sensors which enable the system to control and maintain the phase matching of the mirrored surfaces of adjacent segments to accuracies of a few nanometers are needed. Blue Line Engineering Co. proposes to develop a novel type of sensor which will be suitable ...

Cryogenic radiometers are the primary standards for the measurement of power in the infrared, the visible, and the ultraviolet, a large part of the ueful spectrum. The integrity of the DoD procurement process and of DoD technology development depend critically on these standards. One aspect of this dependence is measuring the characteristics of those devices that work well in battle. Those measure ...

The traceability of on-wafer calibration standards has long been an issue among the microwave measurement community, and the proliferation of new calibration methods, elements, and applications only exacerbates the problem. This diversity in calibration needs has made traceability of a physical reference impractical. As a result, the NIST developed a procedure which can compare on-wafer calibrat ...

High power diode-pumped 2 micron lasers are of great interest for a variety of lidar applications, including long range hard target tracking and space-based coherent laser radar systems operating in the eye-safe region of the spectrum. Lidar modeling suggests that 0.5-1 J/pulse energies at pulse repetition frequencies of about 40 Hz will be sufficient to meet many lidar mission requirements. CTI h ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW METHOD OF RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM) FOR ADVANCED COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING IN WHICH THE HEAT REQUIRED FOR CURING IS PROVIDED BY PASSING AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT THROUGH ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE GRAPHITE FIBERS IN THE PREFORM. THIS METHOD, WHICH WE DESIGNATE RESISTIVE-HEAT CURED RTM OR RHCRTM, WILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL RTM IN WHICH HEAT IS PROVI ...

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