A five-decade dynamic-range ambient-light-independent calibrated signed-spatial-contrast AER retina with 0.1-ms latency and optional time-to-first-spike mode

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2632-2643

  Leñero Bardallo, Juan Antonio ^a   Serrano Gotarredona, Teresa ^a   Linares Barranco, Bernabé ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Address event representation; analog circuits; artificial retina; bio inspired circuits; calibration; contrast sensors; image sensors; low power circuits; spiking circuits; transistor mismatch

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; BIOMIMETICS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

ADDRESS-EVENT REPRESENTATION; ARTIFICIAL RETINAS; BIHARMONIC OPERATORS; CONTRAST COMPUTATION; EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; MISMATCH CALIBRATION; TRANSISTOR MISMATCH;

PIXELS;

EID: 77957919783     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2010.2046971     Document Type: Article

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