A VLSI sorting image sensor: Global massively parallel intensity-to-time processing for low-latency adaptive vision

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-75

  Brajovic, Vladimir ^a,b   Kanade, Takeo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational sensors; Image sensors; Robot perception; Smart sensors; Vision; VLSI sensors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SORTING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

COMPUTATIONAL SENSORS; SMART SENSORS; SORTING IMAGE SENSORS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0033078789     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.744603     Document Type: Article

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