A biologically inspired compound-eye detector array - Part I: Modeling and fundamental limits

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1839-1857

  Liu, Zhi ^a   Nehorai, Arye ^b   Paldi, Eytan ^c  

^a OSIsoft Inc   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial compound eye; Biologically inspired; Biomimetics; Eyelet; Fundamental limits; Lens; Mean square angular error; Modeling; Particle communication; Particle detector array; Particle source localization; Weighted direction estimator

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL COMPOUND EYE; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; EYELET; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; MEAN-SQUARE ANGULAR ERROR; MODELING; PARTICLE COMMUNICATION; PARTICLE SOURCE LOCALIZATION; WEIGHTED DIRECTION ESTIMATOR;

ASTROPHYSICS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 65649103728     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2014699     Document Type: Article

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