A Biologically Inspired CMOS Image Sensor

• Main Authors: Sarkar, Mukul (Author), Theuwissen, Albert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 461
• Subjects: Engineering.; Image processing.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

Biological systems are a source of inspiration in the development of small autonomous sensor nodes. The two major types of optical vision systems found in nature are the single aperture human eye and the compound eye of insects. The latter are among the most compact and smallest vision sensors. The...

Table of Contents:

• Natural and artificial compound eye
• Design of a CMOS image sensor
• Design of a CMOS polarization sensor
• Material classification using CMOS polarization sensor
• Navigation using CMOS polarization sensor
• Motion detection and digital polarization
• Future works.