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This work presents an optical neuromorphic imaging and processing cytometry system that integrates an excitable VCSEL-based time-delayed (TD) extreme learning machine with an event-based 2D camera. The proposed system is designed for the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-20 M. Skontranis , G. Moustakas , A. Bogris , C. Mesaritakis

The advent of event-based cameras, with their low latency, high dynamic range, and reduced power consumption, marked a turning point in machine perception and robotic vision. In~particular, the combination of these neuromorphic sensors with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nafiseh Jabbari Tofighi , Maxime Robic , Fabio Morbidi , Pascal Vasseur

This paper presents Timepix2 Lite, a compact readout interface for the Timepix2 hybrid pixel detector, designed to provide high spatial and temporal resolution in a wide range of radiation detection applications. The Timepix2 Lite enables…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-22 O. Pavlas , B. Bergmann , M. Holik , M. Malich , S. Pospisil , P. Smolyanskiy , V. Vicha , R. Filgas

A GridPix readout for a TPC based on the Timepix3 chip is developed for future applications at a linear collider. The GridPix detector consists of a gaseous drift volume read out by a single Timepix3 chip with an integrated amplification…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-23 C. Ligtenberg , K. Heijhoff , Y. Bilevych , K. Desch , H. van der Graaf , F. Hartjes , J. Kaminski , P. M. Kluit , G. Raven , T. Schiffer , J. Timmermans

We discuss the performance of a readout system, Fixed Pulse Shape Efficient Readout (FIPSER), to digitize signals from detectors with a fixed pulse shape. In this study we are mainly interested in the readout of fast photon detectors like…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-16 Brent Limyansky , Robert Reese , John D. Cressler , Adam Nepomuk Otte , Ignacio Taboada , Cagri Ulusoy

Micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) with micro pixel chamber($\mu$-PIC) readout was developed for the detection of the three-dimensional fine(sub-m illimeter) tracks of charged particles. We developed a two-dimensional position…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kentaro Miuchi , Hidetoshi Kubo , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Atsuhiko Ochi , Reiko Orito , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Masaru Ueno

The detection and tracking of small targets in passive optical remote sensing (PORS) has broad applications. However, most of the previously proposed methods seldom utilize the abundant temporal features formed by target motion, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Wenlong Lu , Pengcheng Wang , Zhaoyuan Qi , Xiaodong Peng , Zhen Yang

At least 25 kinds of detector-like devices need to be integrated in Phase I of the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), and the work needs to be carefully planned to maximise productivity with highly limited human resources. After a systematic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-06 Qun Zhang , Peng-Cheng Li , Ling-Zhu Bian , Chun Li , Zong-Yang Yue , Cheng-Long Zhang , Zhuo-Feng Zhao , Yi Zhang , Gang Li , Ai-Yu Zhou , Yu Liu

Event-based cameras are vision devices that transmit only brightness changes with low latency and ultra-low power consumption. Such characteristics make event-based cameras attractive in the field of localization and object tracking in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Sherif A. S. Mohamed , Jawad N. Yasin , Mohammad-hashem Haghbayan , Antonio Miele , Jukka Heikkonen , Hannu Tenhunen , Juha Plosila

Caribou is a flexible open-source DAQ system developed and used within several collaborative frameworks (CERN EP R&D, RD50, AIDAinnova) for laboratory and high-rate beam tests and easy integration of new silicon-pixel detector prototypes.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-22 Eric Buschmann

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the under-exposure image captured in dark scenarios. Under such scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras may fail to capture the structure and color information due to the exposure time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuejian Guo , Zhiqiang Tian , Yuehang Wang , Siqi Li , Yu Jiang , Shaoyi Du , Yue Gao

The concept of a hybrid readout of a time projection chamber is presented. It combines a GEM-based amplification and a pad-based anode plane with a pixel chip as readout electronics. This way, a high granularity enabling to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-06 Ulrich Einhaus , Jochen Kaminski

With increasing demands by future and current upgrades of particle physics experiments on rate capabilities and time resolution, the requirements on test beams are also increasing. The current infrastructure at the DESY II test beam…

OPTIMA is a small, versatile high-speed photometer which is primarily intended for time resolved observations of young high energy pulsars at optical wavelengths. The detector system consists of eight fiber fed photon counters based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Straubmeier , G. Kanbach , F. Schrey

We present measurements with a GEM based TPC prototypes and the TimePix CMOS ASIC as charge collecting anode. Tests with a small prototype were performed in a 5 GeV electron beam at DESY. Different GEM orientations and geometries were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-02 U. Renz

AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor originally developed to enable precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium-energy regime (approximately 100 keV-100 MeV) based on the groundwork laid by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bobae Kim , Regina Caputo , Manoj Jadhav , Sylvester Joosten , Adrien Laviron , Richard Leys , Jessica Metcalfe , Nicolas Striebig , Daniel Violette , Maria Żurek

The concept of a hybrid readout of a time projection chamber is presented. It combines a GEM-based amplification and a pad-based anode plane with a pixel chip as readout electronics. This way, a high granularity enabling to identify…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-23 Ulrich Einhaus , Jochen Kaminksi , Michele Caselle

This paper presents a novel pixel chip readout scheme: the Region-of-Interest Readout Circuit (ROIRC), which is designed for large area, large array pixel chips and Gas Pixel Detector (GPD). This design employs a sentinel pixel detection…

FASPAX (Fermi-Argonne Semiconducting Pixel Array X-ray detector) is being developed as a fast integrating area detector with wide dynamic range for time resolved applications at the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS.) A burst mode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-18 Kyung-Wook Shin , Robert Bradford , Ronald Lipton , Gregory Deptuch , Farah Fahim , Tim Madden , Tom Zimmerman

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that mimic retinas to asynchronously report per-pixel intensity changes rather than outputting an actual intensity image at regular intervals. This new paradigm of image sensor offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yusuke Sekikawa , Kosuke Hara , Hideo Saito