Retinomorphic Chips that see Quadrupple Images

  • Authors:
  • Kwabena Boahen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • MICRONEURO '99 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy and Bio-Inspired Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Retinomorphic Chips may improve their spike-coding efficiency by emulating the primate retina's parallel pathways. To this end, I recreated retinal microcircuits in a chip, Visio1, that models the four predominant ganglion-cells, a die size of 9.25 脳 9.67mm虏 in 1.2µm 5V CMOS, and consumes 11.5mW at 5 spikes/seconds/neuron. Visio1 includes novel subthreshold current-mode circuits that use horizontal-cell autofeedback to decouple spatiotemporal bandpass filtering from local gain control and use amacrine-cell loop-gain modulation to adapt highpass and lowpass temporal filtering. Different ganglion cells respond to motion in a stereotyped sequence, making it possible to detect edges of one contrast or the other moving in one direction or the other. I present results from a multichip 2-D motion architecture, which implements Watson and Ahumada's model of human visual-motion sensing.