A general purpose analog neural computer and a silicon retina for real time target acquisition, recognition and tracking

Proceedings - 1993 Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, CAMP 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 48-57

  Etienne Cummings, R ^a   Van Der Spiegel, J ^a   Donham, C ^a   Fernando, S ^a   Hathaway, R ^a   Mueller, P ^b   Blackman, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Corticon Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EDGE DETECTION; ERROR CORRECTION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SILICON; TIME SWITCHES; VISION;

AUTONOMOUS TARGET ACQUISITION; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; CORRECTION TECHNIQUES; FIRST ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; INCIDENT LIGHT INTENSITY; INTERCONNECTION SWITCHES; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 84886304762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CAMP.1993.622457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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