An ON-OFF orientation selective address event representation image transceiver chip

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 342-353

  Choi, Thomas Yu Wing ^a   Shi, Bertram E ^a   Boahen, Kwabena A ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; DIGITAL FILTERS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; TUNING;

ADDRESS EVENT REPRESENTATION; ANALOG CIRCUITS; ASYNCHRONOUS LOGIC; GABOR FILTER; NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; VISUAL CORTEX;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 1442312146     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2003.822551     Document Type: Article

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