A parallel analog intelligent vision sensor with a variable receptive field

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-69

  Yagi, Tetsuya ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Kameda, Seiji ^a   Iizuka, Kunihiko ^b,i  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers   (Japan)

^f Society of Instrument and Control Engineers   (Japan)

^g Japanese Neural Network Society   (Japan)

^h Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology   (Japan)

ⁱ Advanced Technology Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog VLSI; Laplacian Gaussian; Offset compensation; Parallel processing; Variable receptive field; Vision chip

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003927401     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-684X(199901)30:1<60::AID-SCJ6>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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