A 128 × 128 Pixel 120-dB Dynamic-Range Vision-Sensor Chip for Image Contrast and Orientation Extraction

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2325-2333

  Rüedi, Pierre François ^a   Heim, Pascal ^a   Kaess, François ^a   Grenet, Eric ^a   Heitger, Friedrich ^a   Burgi, Pierre Yves ^a,b   Gyger, Stève ^a   Nussbaum, Pascal ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analog VLSI; CMOS vision sensor; Contrast computation; Early vision; Orientation computation; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CONTRAST COMPUTATION; EARLY VISION; ORIENTATION COMPUTATION; TEMPORAL CODING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 9144260058     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.819169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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