A biomimetic VLSI sensor for visual tracking of small moving targets

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2384-2394

  Higgins, Charles M ^a   Pant, Vivek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog very large scale integration (VLSI); Biomimetic; Spatiotemporal frequency; Target tracking; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTS; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION);

BIOMIMETIC SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL FREQUENCY; TARGET TRACKING; VISUAL MOTION;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 10944262376     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.836856     Document Type: Article

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