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A Contrast Sensitive Silicon Retina with Reciprocal Synapses

Boahen, Kwabena A. and Andreou, Andreas G. (1992) A Contrast Sensitive Silicon Retina with Reciprocal Synapses. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4 (NIPS 1991). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. No.4. Morgan Kaufmann , San Mateo, CA, pp. 764-770. ISBN 1-55860-222-4. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160119-165146283

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Abstract

The goal of perception is to extract invariant properties of the underlying world. By computing contrast at edges, the retina reduces incident light intensities spanning twelve decades to a twentyfold variation. In one stroke, it solves the dynamic range problem and extracts relative reflectivity, bringing us a step closer to the goal. We have built a contrast-sensitive silicon retina that models all major synaptic interactions in the outer-plexiform layer of the vertebrate retina using current-mode CMOS circuits: namely, reciprocal synapses between cones and horizontal cells, which produce the antagonistic center/surround receptive field, and cone and horizontal cell gap junctions, which determine its size. The chip has 90 x 92 pixels on a 6.8 x 6.9mm die in 2μm n-well technology and is fully functional.


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