Presentation
A 26.5 nJ/px 2.64 Mpx/s CMOS Vision Sensor for Gaussian Pyramid Extraction
Author/s | Suárez, Manuel
Fernández Berni, Jorge Carmona Galán, Ricardo Cabello, D. Rodríguez Vázquez, Ángel Benito |
Publication Date | 2014 |
Deposit Date | 2018-05-15 |
ISBN/ISSN | 0018-9200 1558-173X |
Abstract | This paper introduces a CMOS vision sensor to extract the Gaussian pyramid with an energy cost of 26.5 nJ/px at 2.64 Mpx/s, thus outperforming conventional solutions employing an imager and a separate digital processor. ... This paper introduces a CMOS vision sensor to extract the Gaussian pyramid with an energy cost of 26.5 nJ/px at 2.64 Mpx/s, thus outperforming conventional solutions employing an imager and a separate digital processor. The chip, manufactured in a 0.18 μm CMOS technology, consists of an arrangement of 88 × 60 processing elements (PEs) which captures images of 176 × 120 resolution and performs concurrent parallel processing right at pixel level. The Gaussian pyramid is generated by using a switched-capacitor network. Every PE includes four photodiodes, four MiM capacitors, one 8-bit single-slope ADC and one CDS circuit, occupying 44 x 44 μm2. Suitability of the chip is assessed by using metrics pertaining to visual tracking |
Project ID. | N000141410355
TEC2009-12686 TEC2012- 38921-C02 IPT-2011-1625-430000 IPC-20111009 TIC 2338-2013 EM2013/038 |
Citation | Suárez, M., Fernández Berni, J., Carmona Galán, R., Cabello, D. y Rodríguez Vázquez, Á.B. (2014). A 26.5 nJ/px 2.64 Mpx/s CMOS Vision Sensor for Gaussian Pyramid Extraction. |
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