Electronic compound-eye image sensor: construction and calibration

Richard Hornsey; Paul Thomas; Winnie Wong; Srdjan Pepic; Kevin Yip; Rubakumar Krishnasamy

doi:10.1117/12.526811

7 June 2004 Electronic compound-eye image sensor: construction and calibration

Richard Hornsey, Paul Thomas, Winnie Wong, Srdjan Pepic, Kevin Yip, Rubakumar Krishnasamy

Proceedings Volume 5301, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications V; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526811
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Compound eyes are a highly successful natural solution to the issue of wide field of view and high update rate for vision systems. Applications for an electronic implementation of a compound eye sensor include high-speed object tracking and depth perception. In this paper we demonstrate the construction and operation of a prototype compound eye sensor which currently consists of up to 20 eyelets, each of which forms an image of approximately 150 pixels in diameter on a single CMOS image sensor. Post-fabrication calibration of such a sensor is discussed in detail with reference to experimental measurements of accuracy and repeatability.

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Richard Hornsey, Paul Thomas, Winnie Wong, Srdjan Pepic, Kevin Yip, and Rubakumar Krishnasamy "Electronic compound-eye image sensor: construction and calibration", Proc. SPIE 5301, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications V, (7 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526811

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