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Technical
Seminar (Joint Meeting with
Centennial Subsection) Distinguished
Lecturer Series |
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Biologically Inspired Smart CMOS Vision Sensors
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DATE/TIME
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 (4:30 to 6:00pm) |
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PLACE
Bldg. 1 Auditorium (Agilent Technologies,
Fort Collins, CO) |
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DIRECTIONS
From I-25, take Harmony Road Exit (Exit
265) westbound, and enter Agilent/HP campus on right. Agilent/HP
campus is on the NE corner of Harmony Road and Ziegler Road.
Proceed to Bldg. 1 Lobby to sign-in and meet host for escort to Room
WLL2/3. |
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Non-Agilent/HP/Intel
Attendees: Please arrive punctually at 4:15pm as you will
need to be escorted to the seminar
room. We appreciate a courtesy RSVP to bob_barnes@agilent.com
to expedite sign-in and to help us with a headcount estimate for
food/drinks. |
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ABSTRACT |
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This presentation deals with a variety of
optical sensors that are architecturally inspired by biological
systems. A brief overview of the underlying biological
mechanisms found in sensory systems will be discussed, as well as
signal processing strategies and sensory circuits, with special
attention given to visual systems. |
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The talk will describe how these
properties can be used to design and build neuromorphic vision
sensors with pixels that contain both detectors and local signal
processing elements. Examples of CMOS-based vision sensors with
on-chip contrast, edge, motion and orientation detection
capabilities will be discussed. One such chip has been
designed and fabricated for motion perception and visual tracking.
It performs two-dimensional visual acquisition and tracking of
moving objects. Another example is an imager for the detection
of higher level image features, such as line orientations, corners,
junctions (T-, X-, Y-type) and linestops. |
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PRESENTATION SLIDES
pdf
demo1
demo2 |
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PROF. JAN VAN DER SPIEGEL (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
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Jan Van der Spiegel, Professor
of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Director of the Center
for Sensor Technologies, is the interim Chair of the Department
of Electrical and Systems Engineering. He is a fellow of
the IEEE, editor of Sensors and Actuators A for N&S America and is on
the editorial board of the Journal of the Brazilian Microelectronics
Society. He has served on several IEEE program committees and is currently
a member of the Executive and Program Committees of the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He is the Chapter Chairs
coordinator of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). Recipient
of the UPS Foundation Distinguished Education Chair, Van der Spiegel also
received the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Term Chair in 1991, the Christian
and Mary Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1990, the
S. Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1987, the
Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 and the IEEE Third Millenium
Medal in 2000. |
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Van der Spiegel received his
Engineering degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and his PhD degree
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1974
and 1979, respectively. His
primary research interests are in biologically based sensory information
processing systems, microsensor technology, and low power, low voltage
analog integrated circuits. He has been teaching electric circuits,
microelectronics, logic design, sensor technologies, integrated circuits
and VLSI. |
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Website |
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PHOTOS
Courtesy of Bob Barnes
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