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Event cameras are a novel type of sensor designed for capturing the dynamic changes of a scene. Due to factors such as trigger and transmission delays, a time offset exists in the data collected by multiple event cameras, leading to…
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In this paper we propose a low-cost high-speed imaging line scan system. We replace an expensive industrial line scan camera and illumination with a custom-built set-up of cheap off-the-shelf components, yielding a measurement system with…
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In this paper it is shown that a measurement of the relative luminosity changes at the LHC may be obtained by analysing the currents drawn from the high voltage power supplies of the electromagnetic section of the forward calorimeter of the…
Event cameras are bioinspired sensors with reaction times in the order of microseconds. This property makes them appealing for use in highly-dynamic computer vision applications. In this work,we explore the limits of this sensing technology…
We present preliminary characterization of the Speedster-EXD, a new event driven hybrid CMOS detector (HCD) developed in collaboration with Penn State University and Teledyne Imaging Systems. HCDs have advantages over CCDs including lower…
We examine hysteresis in cyclic voltammetry of Br electrosorption onto single-crystal Ag(100) by dynamic Monte Carlo simulations. At room temperature, this system displays a second-order phase transition from a low-coverage disordered phase…
We discuss the memristive fingerprints of the hybrid Cassie-Mayr model of electric arcs. In particular, it is shown that (i) the voltage-current characteristic of the model has the pinched hysteresis nature, (ii) the voltage and current…
A number of memristive devices, mainly ReRAMs, have been reported to exhibit a unique non-zero crossing hysteresis attributed to the interplay of resistive and not yet fully understood `capacitive', and `inductive' effects. This work…
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Event cameras provide asynchronous, data-driven measurements of local temporal contrast over a large dynamic range with extremely high temporal resolution. Conventional cameras capture low-frequency reference intensity information. These…
In this paper, we propose a low error rate and real-time stereo vision system on GPU. Many stereo vision systems on GPU have been proposed to date. In those systems, the error rates and the processing speed are in trade-off relationship. We…
An amplifier-less continuous-time analog-to-digital converter consisting of only passives, comparators, and inverters is presented. Beyond simplicity, the architecture displays significant robustness properties with respect to component…
In this paper, we investigate the stability of a feedback interconnection between a linear system and a Duhem hysteresis operator, where the linear system and the Duhem hysteresis operator satisfy either the counter-clockwise (CCW) or…