A multichip neuromorphic system for spike-based visual information processing

Neural Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2281-2300

  Vogelstein, R Jacob ^a   Mallik, Udayan ^b   Culurciello, Eugenio ^c   Cauwenberghs, Gert ^d   Etienne Cummings, Ralph ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES; TABLE LOOKUP;

CORTEXES; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MIXED SIGNAL; MULTICHIPS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; NEUROMORPHIC; NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS; VISION PROCESSING; VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; VLSI SYSTEM;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548605095     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.9.2281     Document Type: Article

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