摘要 |
<p>A special purpose pipeline digital computer is disclosed for processing a pair of related, digitally encoded, images to produce a difference image showing any dissimilarities between the first image and the second image. The computer is comprised of a number of special purpose pipeline processors linked to a supervisory general purpose processor. First, a initial image warp transformation is computed by a spatial transformation pipeline processor using a plurality of operator selected, feature related, match points on the pair of images, and then, image correlation is performed by a dot product processor working with a square root and divide processor to identify the exact matching location of a second group matching points selected in a geometrical pattern, on the pair of images. The final image warp transformation to achieve image registration occurs in the spatial transformation processor, using a localized polylateral technique having the geometrically selected match points as the vertrices of the polylaterals. Finally, photoequalization is performed and the difference image is generated from the pair of registered images by a photoequalization processor.</p> |