A one-dimensional CMOS focal plane array for Gabor-type image filtering

Author

Shi, Bertram E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

46

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

323

Lastpage

327

Abstract

We describe the design, implementation, and test results from an analog complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor very large scale integration (CMOS VLSI) chip which combines photosensing and an image filtering operation similar to Gabor filtering. The chip contains a one-dimensional (1-D) 27-pixel array and generates three outputs at every pixel; the input image intensity and the real and imaginary parts of the filter output. These results validate experimentally a recently presented theoretical framework for the design of cellular neural network (CNN) templates for Gabor-type spatial image filtering

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; VLSI; active vision; analogue processing circuits; cellular neural nets; filtering theory; focal planes; image processing equipment; neural chips; stereo image processing; 1D CMOS focal plane array; CNN chip; CNN templates; Gabor-type image filtering; active vision systems; analog CMOS VLSI chip; cellular neural network; image sensing; one-dimensional FPA; photosensing; Analog circuits; Cellular neural networks; Filtering; Gabor filters; Image processing; Integrated circuit interconnections; Low pass filters; Pixel; Testing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7122

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/81.747213

Filename

747213