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Focal-plane generation of multi-resolution and multi-scale image representation for low-power vision applications
Fernández-Berni, J.
Carmona-Galán, R.
Carranza-González, L.
Zarandy, A.
Rodríguez-Vázquez, Ángel
Comunicación presentada al "XXXVII Infrared Technology and Applications" celebrado en Orlando (USA) el 25 de Abril del 2011.
Early vision stages represent a considerably heavy computational load. A huge amount of data needs to be processed under strict timing and power requirements. Conventional architectures usually fail to adhere to the specifications in many application fields, especially when autonomous vision-enabled devices are to be implemented, like in lightweight UAVs, robotics or wireless sensor networks. A bioinspired architectural approach can be employed consisting of a hierarchical division of the processing chain, conveying the highest computational demand to the focal plane. There, distributed processing elements, concurrent with the photosensitive devices, influence the image capture and generate a pre-processed representation of the scene where only the information of interest for subsequent stages remains. These focal-plane operators are implemented by analog building blocks, which may individually be a little imprecise, but as a whole render the appropriate image processing very efficiently. As a proof of concept, we have developed a 176x144-pixel smart CMOS imager that delivers lighter but enriched representations of the scene. Each pixel of the array contains a photosensor and some switches and weighted paths allowing reconfigurable resolution and spatial filtering. An energy-based image representation is also supported. These functionalities greatly simplify the operation of the subsequent digital processor implementing the high level logic of the vision algorithm. The resulting figures, 5.6m W@30fps, permit the integration of the smart image sensor with a wireless interface module (Imote2 from Memsic Corp.) for the development of vision-enabled WSN applications.
2013-10-18T10:11:42Z
2013-10-18T10:11:42Z
2011
2013-10-18T10:11:42Z
comunicación de congreso
XXXVII Infrared Technology and Applications (2011)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/84547
10.1117/12.883881
eng
Proceedings of SPIE 8012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.883881
openAccess
The International Society for Optics and Photonics