Asynchronous visual event-based time-to-contact

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Clady, Xavier ^a   Clercq, Charles ^a,b   Ieng, Sio Hoi ^a   Houseini, Fouzhan ^b   Randazzo, Marco ^b   Natale, Lorenzo ^b   Bartolozzi, Chiara ^b   Benosman, Ryad ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Event based computation; Neuromophic vision; Robotics; Time to contact

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYNCHRONOUS VISUAL EVENT BASED TIME TO CONTACT COMPUTATION; AUTOMATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE APPLICATION; ROBOTICS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84898043670     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00009     Document Type: Article

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