A 3.6 μ s latency asynchronous frame-free event-driven dynamic-vision-sensor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1443-1455

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Address event representation; AER; asynchronous vision sensor; CMOS pixel; dynamic vision sensor; high speed vision sensor; temporal contrast

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS-EVENT-REPRESENTATION; AER; ASYNCHRONOUS VISION SENSOR; CMOS PIXEL; DYNAMIC VISION SENSOR; HIGH SPEED VISION; TEMPORAL CONTRAST;

PIXELS;

SENSORS;

EID: 79957782709     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2118490     Document Type: Article

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