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Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are novel image sensors that record the arrival of individual photons at extremely high temporal resolution. In the past, they were only available as single pixels or small-format arrays, for various active imaging ap ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Edoardo Charbon

A burst image sensor named Hanabi, meaning fireworks in Japanese, includes a branching CCD and multiple CMOS readout circuits. The sensor is backside-illuminated with a light/charge guide pipe to minimize the temporal resolution by suppressing the horizont ...

2021

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

The invention relates to an image sensor comprising a photodetector array including neighboring photodetector elements, each photodetector element comprising: - a photodetector cell having a photodiode and a reset unit; - a cell control unit coupled with t ...

2021

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Bilal Demir

The cameras are invented by imitating the human visual system to capture the scene. The camera technologies have been substantially advanced in recent years. 108 MP resolution with 100x hybrid zoom has become standard features for smartphone flagships. In ...

EPFL2020

Experimental Verification of the Impact of Analog CMS on CIS Readout Noise

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

In this article, the impact of the combination of the column-level gain and the correlated multiple sampling (CMS) on the noise of CMOS image sensor (CIS) readout chains is first analyzed. The theory is then validated experimentally with CIS readout chains ...

2020

Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

Jean-Michel Sallese, Chiara Rossi

We present SPICE simulations of a CMOS APS pixel element consisting of the optical sensor with the sensing circuit. The photodiode is simulated at the physics level by means of the so-called Generalized Devices, without any predefined compact model. Conver ...

2020

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This letter introduces a 5-transistors (5T) implementation of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) pixels enabling the combination of deep sub-electronnoise performance with wide dynamic range (DR). The 5T pixel presents a new technique to reduce the sense node capaci ...

2020

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: - a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; - a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured t ...

2019

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Preethi Padmanabhan, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

This article introduces a modular, direct time-of-flight (TOF) depth sensor. Each module is digitally synthesized and features a 2

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2019

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Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Experimental Verification of the Impact of Analog CMS on CIS Readout Noise

Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Experimental Verification of the Impact of Analog CMS on CIS Readout Noise

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability