Silicon Retina with Correlation-Based, Velocity-Tuned Pixels

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 529-541

  Delbrück, Tobias ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

LOCAL DIRECTION SELECTIVE OUTPUTS; MOVING EDGES; SILICON RETINA;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0027591385     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: 19410093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.217194     Document Type: Article

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