Highly-parallel Optical Fourier Intensity Convolution Filter For Image Classification
Zibo Hu, Mario Miscuglio, Jonathan George, Yousra Alkabani, Tarek El Gazhawi, Volker J. Sorger · 2019
Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) extracts features from large dataset by spatial filtering. We experimentally demonstrate convolutional filtering using Fourier optics. Unlike phase-based modulation, we show amplitude-based convolutions performing one layer of an artificial CNN.