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This paper presents an event-driven vision system, including a dual-line dynamic vision sensor and a general purpose address-event processor tailored for real-time and highspeed applications. The asynchronous and self-spiking pixels of the dynamic vision sensor are times tamped with high-precision and routed to the processor for flexible and data rate-dependent information processing. The general-...Show More
Dynamic vision sensor (DVS) as a bio-inspired camera, has shown great advantages in high dynamic range (HDR) and high temporal resolution (us) in vision tasks. However, how to lossy compress asynchronous spikes for meeting the demand of large-scale transmission and storage meanwhile maintaining the analysis performance still remains open. Towards this end, this paper proposes a lossy spike coding ...Show More
In this paper, we propose a monocular multiframe high dynamic range (HDR) monocular vision system to improve the imaging quality of traditional CMOS/charge-coupled device (CCD)-based vision system for advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs). Conventional CMOS/CCD image sensors are confined to limited dynamic range that it impairs the imaging quality under undesirable environments for ADAS (e.g....Show More
In this study, key-characteristics of different bioinspired vision systems are presented, and their importance in the design of autonomous navigation systems is highlighted. Two paradigms reflecting authors' research efforts in the design of vision systems, mimicking the human and animal retina, are presented. The first paradigm relates to the development of novel polymer nanostructures and nanoan...Show More
In the asynchronous time-based image sensor (ATIS), capture is performed asynchronously by each pixel when the dynamic vision sensor (DVS) module detects significant luminance change. The DVS module control aims at avoiding redundant capture. Furthermore, time-based capture allows for high dynamic range imaging. Each original ATIS pixel is composed by a capture module and a DVS module, resulting i...Show More
Event-based dynamic vision sensors (DVSs) asynchronously report log intensity changes. Their high dynamic range, sub-ms latency and sparse output make them useful in applications such as robotics and real-time tracking. However they discard absolute intensity information which is useful for object recognition and classification. This paper presents a dynamic and active pixel vision sensor (DAVIS) ...Show More
This paper describes a 128 times 128 pixel CMOS vision sensor. Each pixel independently and in continuous time quantizes local relative intensity changes to generate spike events. These events appear at the output of the sensor as an asynchronous stream of digital pixel addresses. These address-events signify scene reflectance change and have sub-millisecond timing precision. The output data rate ...Show More
This paper introduces a high dynamic range pixel for early vision processing. Early vision is the first stage to subsequently extract semantic information for image processing or video analytics. This paper proposes to bring said processing to the focal plane, next to a high dynamic range image sensor working on the principle of lateral overflow capacitor. This brings the benefits of processing sc...Show More
In recent years, visual sensors have been quickly improving towards mimicking the visual information acquisition process of human brain by responding to illumination changes as they occur in time rather than at fixed time intervals. In this context, the so-called neuromorphic vision sensors depart from the conventional frame-based image sensors by adopting a paradigm shift in the way visual inform...Show More
This paper addresses low-power design techniques on a CMOS vision chip working in global shutter mode for event generation by frame differencing with a per-pixel algorithm for high dynamic range (HDR). In particular, the paper focuses on the inclusion of the dynamic source follower (DSF) as buffer in exchange of the conventional source follower (CSF) in both the front-end sensor and the per-pixel ...Show More
This paper proposed a vision system which implements a foveal mechanism to concentrate the attention and dynamically control the center and size of region of interest. The core of the system is an electronically-foveated dynamic vision sensor. An architecture and implementation of an electronically-foveated dynamic vision sensor is proposed. Simulation results demonstrating its operation are provi...Show More
Optical recording of neural activity using calcium or voltage indicators requires cameras capable of detecting small temporal contrast in light intensity with sample rates of 10 Hz to 1 kHz. Large pixel scientific CMOS image sensors (sCMOS) are typically used due to their high resolution, high frame rate, and low noise. However, using such sensors for long-term recording is challenging due to thei...Show More
In this study, a novel experimental design of a cognitive imaging system aiming at enhancing the spatial and temporal resolution of neuromorphic vision sensors, is presented. Super resolution images of moving or semi-obstructed targets, by means of the “Polarimetric Dynamic Vision Sensor (pDVS)” system, were obtained. This system improves the contrast sensitivity and proves to be an efficient stra...Show More
To break through the limitation of dynamic vision sensor (DVS) in object recognition and classification, a pulse width modulation (PWM) imaging method in a multi-mode DVS which integrates temporal contrast detection with brightness measurement is proposed. The improved logarithmic photoreceptor with pulse coding strategy ensures a theoretical intra-scene dynamic range of 130 dB. The 128×128 vision...Show More
Event-based dynamic vision sensors (DVS), inspired by biological vision systems, lead to new sensing and computing paradigms. The novel sensors output the sensed signal alone with many noise events asynchronously. Data-preprocessing for filtering these noises is significant before utilizing the data in applications such as classification, tracking and motion-data extraction. This paper describes a...Show More
Back side illumination has become standard image sensor technology owing to its superior quantum efficiency and fill factor. A direct comparison of front and back side illumination (FSI and BSI) used in event-based dynamic and active pixel vision sensors (DAVIS) is interesting because of the potential of BSI to greatly increase the small 20% fill factor of these complex pixels. This brief compares...Show More
The hand gesture recognition system is a noncontact and intuitive communication approach, which, in turn, allows for natural and efficient interaction. This work focuses on developing a novel and robust gesture recognition system, which is insensitive to environmental illumination and background variation. In the field of gesture recognition, standard vision sensors, such as CMOS cameras, are wide...Show More
Industrial robots require high-precision calibration to perform tasks with accuracy and reliability in real-world environments. This study presents a novel rotational laser vision sensor designed to enhance the calibration accuracy of industrial robots. The key contribution of this paper is the high-precision modeling and calibration method for the proposed sensor, which effectively improves accur...Show More
In this work, we present a hardware-efficient architecture for pedestrian detection with neuromorphic Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVSs), asynchronous camera sensors that report discrete changes in light intensity. These imaging sensors have many advantages compared to traditional frame-based cameras, such as increased dynamic range, lower bandwidth requirements, and higher sampling frequency with lowe...Show More
In this brief, a novel optically-reconfigurable physical unclonable function (OR-PUF) is presented for CMOS dynamic vision sensor (DVS). By utilizing the in-pixel logarithmic photoreceptor’s spatial photoresponse nonuniformity (PRNU) as the entropy source, raw physical unclonable function (PUF) bits having high reliability and randomness can be generated with monochromatic illumination in visible ...Show More
This paper presents an event-driven readout integrated circuit (ROIC) for imaging and target-tracking infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPAs). The pixel circuit consists of event detection (ED) and imaging and trace detection (ITD). Based on the dynamic vision sensor (DVS) structure, ED encodes the temporal changes of infrared radiation into synchronized 1.5-bit events and transmits them to the off-c...Show More
Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) have recently generated great interest because of the advantages of wide dynamic range and low latency compared with conventional frame-based cameras. However, the complicated behaviors in dim light conditions are still not clear, restricting the applications of DVS. In this paper, we analyze the typical DVS circuit, and find that there exists discontinuity of event tr...Show More
A practical method for expanding the dynamic range and resolution of imaging system for robot vision was proposed. The basic principle of the method is combining the half pixel offset high resolution image reconstruction with multiple image sensors high dynamic range image reconstruction. In the method, a special pattern of multiple image sensors is employed and the exposure time of sensors is dif...Show More
This paper proposes a 0.18um CMOS vision sensor that combines event-driven asynchronous readout of temporal contrast with synchronous frame-based active pixel sensor readout of intensity. The sensor is suitable for mobile applications because it allows low latency at low data rate and therefore, low system-level power consumption. The image frames can be used for scene analysis and the temporal co...Show More
A new multiperspective stereo concept for real-time 3-D panoramic vision is presented in this paper. The main contribution is a novel event-driven stereo approach enabling 3-D 360° high-dynamic-range panoramic vision for real-time application in a natural environment. This approach makes use of a sparse visual code generated by a rotating pair of dynamic vision line sensors. The use of this system...Show More