Bioinspired stimulus encoder for cortical visual neuroprostheses

New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 279-290

  Sousa, Leonel ^a   Tomás, Pedro ^a   Pelayo, Francisco ^b   Martinez, Antonio ^b   Morillas, Christian A ^b   Romero, Samuel ^b  

^a IST INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FPL implementation; retina model; Visual cortical neuron stimulation; visual information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956327813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3128-9_22     Document Type: Chapter

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