Embedded neuromorphic vision for humanoid robots

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 129-135

  Bartolozzi, Chiara ^a   Rea, Francesco ^a   Clercq, Charles ^a   Fasnacht, Daniel B ^c   Indiveri, Giacomo ^c   Hofstätter, Michael ^b   Metta, Giorgio ^d  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; MACHINE COMPONENTS; MAMMALS;

ASYNCHRONOUS SIGNALS; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MAMMALIAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; NEUROMORPHIC VISIONS; PROCESSING VISUAL STIMULUS; SENSORIMOTOR SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 80054955534     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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