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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05171A000300030016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 26, 1969
• Content Type: CONT

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To:; Central Intelligence Agency
Washington,, D. C?
_Proosal: To continue the program of research in image processing
by amendment to Contract F- 7 in the amount of
of Central Intelligence Agency funds,
Sl:artin Date and. Period of Time Covered, Beginning on I J+.ly 191Q.
and continuing until 1 October 1969,
Principal Invest1 Bator. Research Engineer and.
Associate Director,
General Backgrounds The has been condt?:c:t .ng,
under funding from the Central ; ntel.iigence Ngeucy ;"Contract Mal
a continuing program of research in the restoration of
degraded photographic images by means of computer processing. Fuild .
ing in response to Proposal overed a 3-month period end-
ing 1 July 19b9.. The present propose calls for a continuation of the
effort from 1 July 1969 to 1 October 1969. The following is a brief de-
scription of the status of the. several, tasks which have rece ivy-d effort in
the course of this research program.
Task I: On-Line Computer Oration, The research program utilizes
an IBM-1800 computer which is leased with. the cost equally shared by the
Central Intelligence Agency and the Advanced Research Projects Agency
The sometimes finds it efficient to utilize time on
the IBM- 1800 when available, for work on other Laboratory contracts- oor
grants., When this is done, the appropriate cost of that time is recharged
to the contract or grant involved,
Substantial progress ha.s been made in achieving flexible and efficient
software for performing the image processing research, The utilization of
the computer has been dramatically increased by the development of an un-
attended night operation in which the computer receives its instructions
from cards rather than the keyboard The instructions are still. given in
the language of image processing, and techniques have been developed duicih
that the cards are easy to prepare:
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E a una'btended cad.,rl mode of operation has been supplemented by
mhe addition of a 35 mm camera whose shutter and film advarce
rxxec fs,a., iasx-~s are corr..pute-.- controlled. This allows pictures to be nv _e
,.turirs g all night runs.
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C 75`Eie, leer! the t: nge ;rote siP,:?; "cseerch as x3atirot;ee the-?c {3Sfe!~'i no
sal0l?.ie scanner and di.3;?.Iaiy' systems comrnercia1i ~ avs.Uabl? This is
eat: itially 'rue today. The culrni.nnition of i`.:is S"or1G it the regref3i dis?
rib ' _, / st:em pr sn,r;.tIir h :zn x : e.p_,ckag.sd for se wi h the computer . 'i he
c ul ?~ ~.e?i:, +sx- to thin dii ptay F7hich is c o:s=tempi:tted is a 14,1 at por.
G" ~^e'tiii y for CoTr2rauuic:.zing complicated a.dd esses to the cn-r, '.puter, as
f: e at .p .e, oatlix:ing an object of interest in a..-:a :.oiage for the pu: ?pose ',;,
ira,; k?x_.g background smoothing opera.':en4 If undortaken, tt,: sight fen
will be fundec by the Ad-;laviced Research war a,iects Agency and is not r. part
c: the work to b,~ ..un.aled in the present
Thr! r;elu ,la:.-t~xxt: engineering effort to sup;sorted by funs n -"es l?a'' F' i e
to this ?_ opoEa.l will be l miited to z continua.' .on of the repackaginf.. effor ci~
the refresh d. splay system.,* It se -rns highly j-robable that this task. can be
corr,l:let?rd du:ing the 3-mouth period ccvert--~d b~;, this proposal.,
Task 3 Bas 4c Restoration Inver tiaions . A lin,ited effort .All I-, cc-_.:
Vnued on the non-F'ourie.r processing techniquer, described in previc.us l.~ U
pos gals , It should be emphasized that these techniques a . C. not =-n equiva
to Fourier processing. Therefore, the goal i3 npt ar, ai.ternz.t o technique
f:)r achieving the saatne results? The goal is getter processsiti ban can be
.cilia-,-rd with. Fourier pi?ocessir_g by %H.--tutw o? a more realistic tre: ixneri
of t;ranutarity and better utilization co i ~' 1 on knowled-gc
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Numerical definition of the extent to which image p.coce;sing can
be accomplished as a function cf resolution and film granixtarity will re-
cWLF% MAjor attention during the funding period. Such definition will be
W;Y-crterken for both de-focus and image ~xaotion deg:c?adatiou.
Image proce3sinj :txperirnenta will be unck_-rtatcen on photr:ga?aphic
ir.x :g :e d :grz ded by image motiL;r., '"he resuir ocr associa.ted with the
inaz.Fe:r?,r will be. increaszd incrementally starting with appr.ox4X-ta+:ely 20
1iic: per bnii3imeter and wo kirr.g toward.s a gas.l. of 100 lines Pcz mUli-
me der,. It is not pocssible to predict the resolution; range -Which will be
: x :fiiaon of their Fourier tkaxssiorraara *hould inc:icz.te the eE; tc nt to which
't 'he c1:.!e gar.^:r. pro':eseing v.cs 3':ore~d. the lama a?r ~ An stterir.i: will, be
tog 1,e "o corn si .er process th ; F:c~.~srerttiana~ inn .gery using the , ugv.l. ga:n:=a.
;r:. a;oa.atlcal model to achieve r- alts compart.bzs to the a.cw~ual, cusll
it ag try This will involve manipulating the se' eral ccnetants in
the s;:..ts:,ema:ical mo el. in. o:rde,. to match the exa.. iple c.f the r?..a' d3ai
gE.rr;t: a. -o oce.asinf
wince the adjacency ef; e;:ts of duel gnn ma i%re spas.:}^al':.y non-linear
rra?ci 1ea-vi .y dependent oi. the local density- gradients in the imagery, it
:ao:.1d b cxp acted. that the effect ~z oul.~ be most pronounce a wit. sharp
i n ge:r-, and much lass pronouncc d v 6th. badly deg:-aded iraag,~ry,, As an
in ^. a c:ahancement tcec:hnique it has the undesirable quality of !ailing und-ar
the condition where it is most needed, "the mathematical model of dual
h:e.ti;t:wa proct:ssing will be used to explore. this premise, and will also be
used to dtitter-ax r..e tk:.e extent to the Linear Fourier type iraage re:pto*-,v-
tior% cz... be e:-nployeel as a fsincti,.at of the csegrec of adjacency p',eseztt ;,.: :i.:.
cie=rimed ;rrx.g,ryo
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