A vision chip for color segmentation and pattern matching

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 703-712

  Etienne Cummings, Ralph ^a,b   Pouliquen, Philippe ^a,b   Lewis, M Anthony ^a  

^a Iguana Robotics Inc   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensor; Color histogramming; Focal plane image processing; Object recognition; Vision chip; VLSI color image processor

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

COLOR SEGMENTATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0038443470     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703302021     Document Type: Article

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