The Retinomorphic Approach: Pixel-Parallel Adaptive Amplification, Filtering, and Quantization

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-68

  Boahen, Kwabena A ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive neuron; Local gain control; Neuromorphic; Pixel parallel; Retinomorphic; Spatiotemporal filtering

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GAIN CONTROL; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

RETINOMORPHIC SYSTEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL FILTERING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031144546     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008215524165     Document Type: Article

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