Dynamically Reconfigurable Vision with High Performance CMOS Active Pixel Sensors (APS)

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-26

  Pain, Bedabrata ^a   Sun, Chao ^a   Wrigley, Chris ^a   Yang, Guang ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS imager; Computational imager; Low power VLSI

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VISION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS (APS); CMOS IMAGERS; COMPUTATIONAL IMAGERS; LOW-POWER VLSI;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 1542301832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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