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Extending in-sensor computing from static images to dynamic motions

Event-driven, in-sensor computing can be performed by individual vision sensors composed of two parallelly connected photodiodes, enabling vision recognition of dynamic motion.

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Fig. 1: Event-driven, in-sensor spiking neural networks.

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Xiang, D., Liu, T. Extending in-sensor computing from static images to dynamic motions. Nat Electron 6, 801–802 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-01070-3

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