Adaptive multiple-resolution CMOS active pixel sensor

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2178-2186

  Artyomov, Evgeny ^a   Yadid Pecht, Orly ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor (APS); CMOS imagers; Compression; Image sensor; Multiple resolution; Quadtree decomposition (QTD); VLSI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE SENSORS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; MULTIPLE RESOLUTION; QUADTREE DECOMPOSITION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33750408969     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.883161     Document Type: Article

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