Event-based pixel sensitive to changes of color and brightness

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1581-1590

  Berner, Raphael ^a   Delbruck, Tobi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Address event representation (AER); asynchronous vision sensor; buried double junction; image sensors; machine vision; neural network hardware; neuromorphic circuit

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER VISION; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS;

ADDRESS-EVENT REPRESENTATION; BURIED DOUBLE JUNCTIONS; NEURAL NETWORK HARDWARE; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS; VISION SENSORS;

PIXELS;

EID: 79959801625     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2157770     Document Type: Article

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