Compressive acquisition CMOS image sensor: From the algorithm to hardware implementation

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 490-500

  Zhang, Milin ^a   Bermak, Amine ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compressive acquisition; Differential pulse code modulation (DPCM); Digital pixel sensors (DPSs); Online block based compression algorithm

Indexed keywords

BLOCK-BASED COMPRESSIONS; CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL CODING; DIGITAL PIXEL SENSOR; DYNAMIC RANGE; ENCODING SCHEMES; ERROR ACCUMULATION; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; MEMORY SAVINGS; NEW DESIGN; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; REDUCED MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; SILICON AREA; TIME DOMAIN;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE CODE MODULATION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HARDWARE; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PIXELS;

EID: 77649239097     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2011489     Document Type: Article

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