A Low-Power Integrated Smart Sensor with on-Chip Real-Time Image Processing Capabilities.

A low-power, CMOS retina with real-time, pixel-level processing capabilities is presented. Features extraction and edge-enhancement are implemented with fully programmable 1D Gabor convolutions. An equivalent computation rate of 3 GOPS is obtained at the cost of very low-power consumption (1.5μW per pixel), providing real-time performances (50 microseconds for overall computation, 0.5 GOPS/mW). Experimental results from the first realized prototype show a very good matching between measures and expected outputs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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