Overview

Vision chips, or smart visual sensors, are those sensors that have integrated image acquisition and parallel processing, often at the pixel level, using dedicated analogue and digital circuits. This text presents a systematic approach to the design and analysis of vision chips using analogue VLSL. It presents algorithmic level implementation issues, from both the VLSI and computer vision points of view. VLSI technologies and general analogue VLSI design methodologies are reviewed, in the context of suitability for vision chips. Chip-level architectural issues are discussed, including tessellation structures, pixel-processor interaction, and data read-out. Analyses of building-blocks necessary in vision chips are presented, including photodetectors, photocircuits, and spatial and temporal processing circuits. Other important design issues, such as testing, digital noise, and mismatch are covered, and the text 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 diagrams and descriptions.

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Author:   Alireza Moini
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   526
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.390kg
ISBN:  

9780792386643

ISBN 10:   0792386647
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   31 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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.

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