Signal compression in biological sensory systems: Information theoretic performance limits

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6799, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McDonnell, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioinspired compression; Biosensors; Cochlear implants; Lossy compression; Neural coding; Quantization

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOSENSORS; GENE ENCODING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

BIOINSPIRED COMPRESSION; BIOLOGICAL SENSORY SYSTEMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; LOSSY COMPRESSION; NEURAL CODING; STIMULUS INTENSITY;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 43349098202     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.759225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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