Neuromorphic processing of moving sonar data for estimating passing range

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 851-859

  Kuc, Roman ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; Neuromorphic computing; Range data; Sonar map; Spike processing

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; RANGE DATA; SONAR MAP; SPIKE PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SONAR;

RANGE FINDING;

EID: 34247153505     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.894138     Document Type: Article

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