OPTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF A 2-D NEURAL NET WITH A THIRD-ORDER INTERCONNECTION FOR IMAGE QUADRATIC ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY BASED ON A COMPACT-ENCODING METHOD.

The optical implementations of a 2-D neural net with a third-order interconnection for image quadratic associative memory are reported. Two types of incoherent optical systems, based on multiple imaging and correlation, are used. In particular, a compact-encoding method, which can greatly reduce the size of the interconnection tensor, is also proposed. The experimental results are given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]