Improved contrast sensitivity DVS and its application to event-driven stereo vision

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2420-2423

  Serrano Gotarredona, T ^a   Park, J ^b   Linares Barranco, A ^c   Jimenez, A ^c   Benosman, R ^d   Linares Barranco, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT DE LA VISION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR SYSTEMS; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-DRIVEN; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; ITS APPLICATIONS; MATCHING CONSTRAINTS; TIMING INFORMATION;

STEREO VISION;

SENSORS;

EID: 84883424115     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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