Tree extension of micro-pipelines for mixed synchronous-asynchronous implementation of regional image computations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5677, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-46

  Gies, Valentin ^a   Bernard, Thierry M ^a  

^a ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial retina; Asynchronism; Dynamically reconfigurable network; Micro pipeline; Regional computations

Indexed keywords

ADDERS; ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ARTIFICIAL RETINA; ASYNCHRONISM; DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE NETWORK; MICRO-PIPELINES; REGIONAL IMAGE COMPUTATIONS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 21944451011     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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