HARDWARE DESIGN OF EXTENDED MAXIMUM AVERAGE CORREL.docx

Abstract

Correlation techniques with number of variations have been adopted very effectively in various scenarios of object detection in the past. An important breakthrough achieved in correlation field is the development of the filter which displays improved performance in clutter rejection, noise suppression and out of plane rotation invariance. “Extended maximum average correlation height” is the latest development encompassing all the desired capabilities in a correlation filter. It displays remarkable results which allow usage of this filter in military based applications handling real time data. Although EMACH filter has been well researched and mathematically modeled by Mohammad Alkanhal and B.V.K Vijaya Kumara in a “SPIE” research paper titled as “Removing False Alarms in MACH Filter”, but it lacks effective and speedy implementation being computationally intensive. Moreover, training of filter for multiple images turns out into non trivial calculations resulting in a heavy workload for personal/ commercial computers.