Second-order neural core for bioinspired focal-plane dynamic image processing in CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 913-925

  Carmona Galán, Ricardo ^a   Jiménez Garrido, Francisco ^a   Domínguez Mata, Carlos Manuel ^a   Domínguez Castro, Rafael ^a   Espejo Meana, Servando ^a   Petras, Istvan ^b   Rodríguez Vázquez, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Neural network hardware; Nonlinear systems; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SILICON WAFERS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

GRID FILTERING; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINA; SECOND ORDER NEURAL CORE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 2542594067     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.827641     Document Type: Article

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