GENERALIZED THEORY OF THE RESOLUTION OF OBJECT TRACKING NOVELTY FILTERS

A general theory of the resolution of arbitrary novelty filters, optical as well as electronic, including the only existing theory as a special case, is presented. Resolution is calculated for the two essential processes of object tracking, i.e. object localization and separation of different objects. Algorithms for the reconstruction of the original objects from the output image are developed. Contour generation, appearing in the novelty filtering of moving objects, is used as a tool to maintain the input resolution. The possibility of image processing and novelty filtering in the Fourier plane is analytically verified. The application of the theory to photorefractive optical novelty filters is briefly discussed.