A microbolometer asynchronous dynamic vision sensor for LWIR

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 654-664

  Posch, Christoph ^a   Matolin, Daniel ^a   Wohlgenannt, Rainer ^a   Maier, Thomas ^a   Litzenberger, Martin ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Address event representation (AER); Asynchronous vision sensors; Bolometers; Infrared image sensors; Machine vision; Neuromorphic electronics

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS-EVENT REPRESENTATION (AER); ASYNCHRONOUS VISION SENSORS; INFRARED IMAGE SENSORS; MACHINE VISION; NEUROMORPHIC ELECTRONICS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BOLOMETERS; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

PIXELS;

EID: 65849346434     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2020658     Document Type: Article

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