Biomimetic sonar and neuromorphic processing eliminate reverberation artifacts

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-369

  Kuc, Roman ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biorobotics; Coincidence detection; Neuromorphic computing; Range data; Signal processing; Sonar map

Indexed keywords

BIOROBOTICS; COINCIDENCE DETECTION; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; RANGE DATA; SONAR MAP;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SONAR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BIOMIMETICS;

EID: 33847736709     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.890126     Document Type: Article

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