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A Wide Linear Dynamic Range Image Sensor Based on Asynchronous Self-Reset and Tagging of Saturation Events
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017)
We report a high dynamic range (HDR) image sensor with a linear response that overcomes some of the limitations of sensors with pixels with self-reset operation. It operates similar to an active pixel sensor, but its pixels ...
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A Rad-hard On-chip CMOS Charge Detector with High Dynamic Range
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)
This article introduces a CMOS charge detector tailored for measuring ionizing radiation in a wide range of fluences. It represents an entirely on-chip solution based on capacitive sensing. It was fabricated using a standard ...
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Towards an ultra‐low‐power low‐cost wireless visual sensor node for fine‐grain detection of forest fires
(Universidade de Coimbra, 2014)
Advances in electronics, sensor technologies, embedded hardware and software are boosting the application scenarios of wireless sensor networks. Specifically, the incorporation of visual capabilities into the nodes means ...
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Form Factor Improvement of Smart-Pixels for Vision Sensors through 3-D Vertically- Integrated Technologies
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014)
While conventional CMOS active pixel sensors embed only the circuitry required for photo-detection, pixel addressing and voltage buffering, smart pixels incorporate also circuitry for data processing, data storage and ...
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Pixel-wise parameter adaptation for single-exposure extension of the image dynamic range
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)
High dynamic range imaging is central in application fields like surveillance, intelligent transportation and advanced driving assistance systems. In some scenarios, methods for dynamic range extension based on multiple ...
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Smart imaging for power-efficient extraction of Viola-Jones local descriptors
(Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2014)
In computer vision, local descriptors permit to summarize relevant visual cues through feature vectors. These vectors constitute inputs for trained classifiers which in turn enable different high-level vision tasks. While ...
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In the quest of vision-sensors-on-chip: Pre-processing sensors for data reduction
(Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2017)
This paper shows that the implementation of vision systems benefits from the usage of sensing front-end chips with embedded pre-processing capabilities - called CVIS. Such embedded pre-processors reduce the number of data ...
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A Bio-Inspired Vision Sensor With Dual Operation and Readout Modes
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
This paper presents a novel event-based vision sensor with two operation modes: intensity mode and spatial contrast detection. They can be combined with two different readout approaches: pulse density modulation and ...
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Asynchronous spiking pixel with programmable sensitivity to illumination
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)
A spiking pixel to be used in image sensor arrays for asynchronous frame-based operation is presented. The pixel features both local and global adaptive sensitivity to the illumination level. Local adaptation is performed ...
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Sun Sensor Based on a Luminance Spiking Pixel Array
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017)
We present a novel sun sensor concept. It is the very first sun sensor built with an address event representation spiking pixel matrix. Its pixels spike with a frequency proportional to illumination. It offers remarkable ...