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Published 1996 | Published
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Adaptive Retina with Center-Surround Receptive Field

Abstract

Both vertebrate and invertebrate retinas are highly efficient in extracting contrast independent of the background intensity over five or more decades. This efficiency has been rendered possible by the adaptation of the DC operating point to the background intensity while maintaining high gain transient responses. The center-surround properties of the retina allows the system to extract information at the edges in the image. This silicon retina models the adaptation properties of the receptors and the antagonistic center-surround properties of the laminar cells of the invertebrate retina and the outer-plexiform layer of the vertebrate retina. We also illustrate the spatio-temporal responses of the silicon retina on moving bars. The chip has 59x64 pixels on a 6.9x6.8 mm^2 die and it is fabricated in 2 µm n-well technology.

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© 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We thank Carver Mead for his support and encouragement. SC Liu is supported by an NIMH fellowship and K Boahen is supported by a Sloan fellowship. We thank Tobias Delbriick for the inspiration and help in testing the design. We also thank Rahul Sarpeshkar and Bradley Minch for comments. Fabrication was provided by MOSIS.

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