Image processing vision systems: Standard image sensors versus retinas

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1675-1687

  Elouardi, Abdelhafid ^a   Bouaziz, Samir ^a   Dupret, Antoine ^a,b   Lacassagne, Lionel ^a   Klein, Jacques Olivier ^a,c   Reynaud, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Villetaneuse   (France)

^c Inst Univ de Technologie de Cachan   (France)

Author keywords

CMOS APS sensors; Image processing; Instrumentation; Smart sensors (retinas); System on chip (SoC); Vision systems architecture

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER VISION; DATA REDUCTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SMART SENSORS;

SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; VISION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 34648830832     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.895671     Document Type: Article

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