An analog VLSI chip emulating polarization vision of Octopus retina

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 222-232

  Momeni, Massoud ^a,b   Titus, Albert H ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analog VLSI; Birefringent micropolarizer; Neuromorphic CMOS; Octopus retina; Polarization vision

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTODIODES; POLARIZATION; VISION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ANALOG VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; BIREFRINGENT MICROPOLARIZER; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITRY; NEUROMORPHIC COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTORECEPTORS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; POLARIZATION VISION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ANALOG COMPUTER; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; MICROCOMPUTER; OCTOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS, ANALOG; EYE, ARTIFICIAL; MICROCOMPUTERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OCTOPODIFORMES; RETINA;

EID: 33144466290     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2005.860865     Document Type: Article

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