A micropower centroiding vision processor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1430-1443

  Constandinou, Timothy G ^a,b   Toumazou, Christofer ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centroiding; CMOS image sensor; Distributed algorithm; Focal plane processing; Micropower; Object detection; Parallel processing; Silicon retina; Target tracking; Vision chip

Indexed keywords

CENTROIDING; CMOS IMAGE SENSORS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; FOCAL PLANE PROCESSING; MICROPOWERS; OBJECT DETECTION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SILICON RETINA; TARGET TRACKING; VISION CHIPS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SENSORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SILICON;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 33746649807     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.874330     Document Type: Article

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