A biomimetic VLSI sensor for visual tracking of small moving targets

Charles M. Higgins; Vivek Pant

doi:10.1109/TCSI.2004.836856

A biomimetic VLSI sensor for visual tracking of small moving targets

Charles M. Higgins, Vivek Pant

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Abstract

Taking inspiration from the visual system of the fly, we describe and characterize a monolithic analog very large-scale integration sensor, which produces control signals appropriate for the guidance of an autonomous robot to visually track a small moving target. This sensor is specifically designed to allow such tracking even from a moving imaging platform which experiences complex background optical flow patterns. Based on relative visual motion of the target and background, the computational model implemented by this sensor emphasizes any small-field motion which is inconsistent with the wide-field background motion.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2384-2394
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume	51
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2004.836856
State	Published - Dec 2004

Keywords

Analog very large-scale integration (VLSI)
Biomimetic
Spatiotemporal frequency
Target tracking
Visual motion

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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