An insect vision-based motion detection chip

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-284

  Moini, Alireza ^a   Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam ^a   Eshraghian, Kamran ^a,b   Yakovleff, Andre ^a,c   Nguyen, Xuan Thong ^a,c   Blanksby, Andrew ^a   Beare, Richard ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a   Bogner, Robert Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analog CMOS; Analog VLSI; Insect vision; Machine vision; Motion sensors; Smart vision sensors; Template model; Vision chips

Indexed keywords

INSECT VISUAL SYSTEMS; MOTION DETECTION CHIP; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE CANCELLATION (MNC);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHOTODETECTORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031077682     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.551924     Document Type: Article

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