Vision Chips

This chapter presents a set of introductory material, which in addition to providing a general view on the topic, highlights the importance of research in this area. It also presents a short history of the design of smart vision sensors, and points out some of the fundamental issues in the design of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moini, Alireza
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction and Background
  • 1 Introduction
  • Computer Vision for Analog VLSI
  • 3 Analog VLSI for Computer Vision
  • II Synthesis of Vision Algorithms
  • 4 Vision Chips Architectures
  • 5 Building Blocks for Vision Chips
  • 6 Testing vision chips
  • 7 Other Design Issues
  • III Vision Sensors
  • 8 Spatial Vision Chips
  • 9 Spatio-Temporal Vision Chips
  • 10 Analog VLSI Chips for Vision Processing
  • IV Case Studies
  • 11 Bugeye II: The Second Insect Vision Motion Detection Chip
  • 12 Bugeye V
  • 13 MNCSI
  • V Appendices
  • A Quantum Efficiency of Photodetectors
  • A. 1 Quantum Efficiency of a Vertical Junction Diode
  • A. 2 Quantum Efficiency of a Lateral Junction Diode
  • A. 3 Quantum Efficiency of a Vertical Bipolar transistor
  • A. 4 Quantum Efficiency of a Lateral Bipolar Photodetector
  • A. 5 Mixed structures
  • A. 6 Quantum Efficiency of a Photogate
  • B Analysis of Second-Order Resistive Networks
  • B. 1 Stability
  • B. 2 Impulse Response