A quarter century of research into deep space and near Earth optical communications This
book captures a quarter century of research and development in deep space optical …

Polarization is one of the three fundamental properties of light, along with color and intensity,
yet most vertebrate species, including humans, are blind with respect to this light modality. In …

A silicon retina chip with a central foveal region for smooth-pursuit tracking and a peripheral
region for saccadic target acquisition is presented. The foveal region contains a 9/spl times/9 …

This paper presents an architectural overview of a pseudogeneral image processor (GIP)
chip for realizing steerable spatial and temporal filters at the focal-plane. The convolution of …

A new method for improving centroid accuracy, thereby pointing accuracy, is proposed.
Accurate centroid estimation is critical for free-space optical communications where the …

We describe a new motion detection circuit that extracts motion information based on a time-
to-travel algorithm. The front-end photoreceptor adapts over 7 decades of background …

Various motion properties of an image can be computed by using normal flow
measurements. Notable among these are focus of expansion, time to contact. Many VLSI …

We present a vision sensor chip designed to detect multiple transient objects—objects that
either move or change in light intensity—and output their locations using address-event …

Visual motion detection is a fundament component of vision, and plays a vital role in scene
analysis and understanding for behaving organisms. In computer vision, motion detection …

Traditional approaches for solving real-world problems using computer vision have
depended heavily on CCD cameras and workstations. As the computation power of …