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A Low-Power Integrated Smart Sensor with on-Chip Real-Time Image Processing Capabilities

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2005, Article number: 301316 (2005) Cite this article

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A low-power, CMOS retina with real-time, pixel-level processing capabilities is presented. Features extraction and edge-enhancement are implemented with fully programmable 1D Gabor convolutions. An equivalent computation rate of 3 GOPS is obtained at the cost of very low-power consumption (W per pixel), providing real-time performances ( microseconds for overall computation,). Experimental results from the first realized prototype show a very good matching between measures and expected outputs.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza d'Armi, Cagliari, 09123, Italy

    Massimo Barbaro & Luigi Raffo

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  1. Massimo Barbaro
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Barbaro, M., Raffo, L. A Low-Power Integrated Smart Sensor with on-Chip Real-Time Image Processing Capabilities. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2005, 301316 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.1062

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