A design framework to model retinas

BioSystems

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 156-163

  Morillas, Christian A ^a   Romero, Samuel F ^a,b   Martínez, Antonio ^a   Pelayo, Francisco J ^a   Ros, Eduardo ^a   Fernández, Eduardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bio inspired image processing; Neuro engineering; Neuromorphic encoding; Retina modeling; Visual prostheses

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; EYE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; VISION;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; MODEL; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; RECORDING; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 33846072532     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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