Reconfigurable biologically inspired visual motion systems using modular neuromorphic VLSI Chips

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 79-92

  Özalevli, Erhan ^a,b   Higgins, Charles M ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Address event representation (AER); Analog very large scale integration (VLSI); Biomimetic; Modular; Neuromorphic; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MULTICHIP MODULES;

ADDRESS-EVENT REPRESENTATION; BIOMIMETIC; NEUROMORPHIC; VISUAL MOTION;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 12944268790     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.838307     Document Type: Article

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