High speed target tracking using massively parallel processing vision

A high speed target tracking system using a two-dimensional vision sensor with cell-parallel processing capabilities is described. A general purpose processing element connected to each sensing element processes various vision tasks in data parallel at a speed far beyond the video rate. The sensor architecture is simple and scalable, and assumes that this vision should be implemented into a VLSI chip. The cycle time of parallel processing vision is 670 μs in the case of their experimental target tracking system. By using the fast position signals, the system has attained target tracking at the actuator speed limit