Tobi Delbrueck
Inst. of Neuroinformatics, UZH-ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Rodney Douglas (left) with Tobi Delbrueck
Date
23 September 2009
Host
Gianni Blatter
Talk title
Silicon Retina-Tetina-Tetina
Abstract
How do our eyes work? Not much like your digital camera! Rather than sending our brain stroboscopic sequences of still photographs, our eyes output highly compressed asynchronous digital impulses that already take a huge step towards vision. In this seminar I will demonstrate how a silicon retina chip we developed can be used to cheaply solve fast dynamic vision problems. And how it achieves this by emulating notions from real retinas like local gain control and asynchronous spike-based digital output. This talk will include live demonstrations of the vision sensor and its use in the world's first pencil balancing robot.