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Smart camera with embedded co-processor: a postal sorting application

Marco Mattavelli, Romuald Mosqueron, Julien Dubois

This work describes an image acquisition and processing system based on a new co-processor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The platform permits to configure a wide variety of acquisition modes (random region acquisition, variable image size, ...

2008

Smart camera based on embedded HW/SW coprocessor

Marco Mattavelli, Romuald Mosqueron

This paper describes an image acquisition and a processing system based on a new coprocessor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The system exploits the full potential CMOS selective access imaging technology because the coprocessor unit is inte ...

2008

Semiconductor Image Sensing

Peter Seitz, Nicolas Blanc

Silicon is an excellent detector material for electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of 0.1 to 1000 nm. In the visible spectral range (400-700 nm), external quantum efficiencies approaching 100% are obtained. When combined with the amazing minia ...

Springer2008

Virtual Sensor Design

Sabine Süsstrunk, Roberto Costantini

We present a virtual digital camera sensor, whose aim is to simulate a real (physical) image capturing sensor.To accomplish this task, the virtual sensor operates in two steps. First, it accepts a physical description of agiven scene and simulates the enti ...

2004

Embedded Co-Processor Architecture for CMOS Based Image Acquisition

Marco Mattavelli

This paper describes a new co-processor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The co-processor unit is integrated into the image acquisition loop so as to exploit the full potential of CMOS selective access imaging technology. The processing featu ...

EPFL2003

CMOS image sensors for subretinal implant system

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Philippe Renaud, Marco Mazza

Visual capabilities recovery for some kind of illness is possible through subretinal implantable device stimulation. Two possible approaches for retinal pixel are proposed, fabricated in 0.35mum CMOS, tested and compared including electronic response on a ...

2003

Efficient ASIC implementation of a real-time depth mapping stereo vision system

Andreas Peter Burg, Simon Karl Moser

This paper presents a fast and area-efficient implementation of a real-time stereo vision algorithm for spatial depth mapping. The design combines two well-known area-based approaches to stereo thatching and includes an occlusion detection method. Hardware ...

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An 8-bit low-power ADC array for CMOS image sensors

Steve Tanner, Michael Ansorge, Alexander Heubi

The paper presents an original analog-to-digital converter (ADC) array meeting the constraining requirements in resolution, speed, size, and low power consumption of high-performance low-cost video cameras. The converter array is based on ADC cells relying ...

1998

Design and development of the smart machine vision sensor

The Smart Machine Vision Sensor (SMVS) is a self-contained low-cost machine vision system that combines an image sensor, a processing unit and communication interfaces in a single unit. This paper describes the design of the SMVS, the concept of the operat ...

1998