Marching-pixels: A new organic computing paradigm for smart sensor processor arrays

2005 Computing Frontiers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Fey, Dietmar ^a   Schmidt, Daniel ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JENOPTIK Laser Optik Systeme GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image pre processing; Organic computing; Self organization; Smart CMOS camera; Smart pixels

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SENSORS;

IMAGE PRE-PROCESSING; ORGANIC COMPUTING; SELF-ORGANIZING; SMART CMOS CAMERA; SMART PIXELS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 33644643030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1062261.1062264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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