Vision Chips - Moini, Alireza

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Résumé :
Vision chips, or smart visual sensors, are those sensors that have integrated image acquisition and parallel processing, often at the pixel level, using dedicated analog and digital circuits. br/ emVision Chips/em presents a systematic approach to the design and analysis of vision chips using analog VLSL. ul liIt presents algorithmic level implementation issues, from both the VLSI and computer vision points of view. /li liIt reviews the VLSI technologies and general analog VLSI design methodologies, in the context of suitability for vision chips. /li liIt describes chip-level architectural issues, including tessellation structures, pixel-processor interaction, and data read-out. /li liIt presents detailed analysis of building-blocks necessary in vision chips, including photodetectors, photocircuits, and spatial and temporal processing circuits. /li liIt addresses other important design issues, such as testing, digital noise, and mismatch./li /ul br/ In addition emVision Chips/em reviews some of the past and existing implementations of smart vision sensors. It contains condensed information on more than fifty vision chips, designed by research laboratories all over the world. Novel and interesting features of each vision chip have been highlighted through informative diagrams and concise descriptions. br/ This book is a valuable asset for researchers in the area, engineers working on the design of vision sensors, graduate students working in analog VLSI and vision, and computer vision and biological vision researchers and scientists.

Sommaire:
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.