A real-time foveated sensor with overlapping receptive fields

Real-Time Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-212

  Bolduc, Marc ^a   Levine, Martin D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

RECEPTIVE FIELD (RF) DTA REDUCTION MODEL;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031170714     PISSN: 10072014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtim.1996.0056     Document Type: Article

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