TY - GEN
T1 - Silicon models of lateral inhibition
AU - Wolpert, Seth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1992 IEEE.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - The neurological process known as lateral inhibition (LI) has long been acknowledged as a critical operation in the pre-processing of many types of sensory stimuli. LI has been observed to enhance visual, auditory, and somatosensory images by performing a differential amplification on the sensory pixels from which the image is composed. In this study, LI is characterized in two CMOS VLSI-based sensory arrays with different pixel geometries and inhibitory algorithms. In these arrays, each sensory pixel inhibits, and in turn, is inhibited by each of its immediate neighbors. Test results indicate that both circuits were able to enhance the contrast of arbitrary two-dimensional images, and do so in a manner that is dynamically stable. Achieving this enhancement on sensory images immediately and simultaneously, this operation offers performance at a level not obtainable by software methods. As such, it is well suited for machine vision systems that utilize parallel architectures.
AB - The neurological process known as lateral inhibition (LI) has long been acknowledged as a critical operation in the pre-processing of many types of sensory stimuli. LI has been observed to enhance visual, auditory, and somatosensory images by performing a differential amplification on the sensory pixels from which the image is composed. In this study, LI is characterized in two CMOS VLSI-based sensory arrays with different pixel geometries and inhibitory algorithms. In these arrays, each sensory pixel inhibits, and in turn, is inhibited by each of its immediate neighbors. Test results indicate that both circuits were able to enhance the contrast of arbitrary two-dimensional images, and do so in a manner that is dynamically stable. Achieving this enhancement on sensory images immediately and simultaneously, this operation offers performance at a level not obtainable by software methods. As such, it is well suited for machine vision systems that utilize parallel architectures.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWSCAS.1991.251995
DO - 10.1109/MWSCAS.1991.251995
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067548207
T3 - Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
SP - 788
EP - 791
BT - 1991 Proceedings of the 34th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 1991
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 34th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 1991
Y2 - 14 May 1992 through 17 May 1992
ER -