Publications

Computational Sensor Laboratory
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Compound Eye Sensor for 3D Ego Motion Estimation
Jan Neumann, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Vladimir Brajovic
submitted to IEEE Int. Con. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2004
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Fast Row-Parallel CMOS Range Image Sensor
Vladimir Brajovic
submitted to IEEE Int. Con. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2004
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When are the Smart Vision Sensors Smart?
Vladimir Brajovic and Takeo Kanade
to appear in Sensor Review, 2004
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Reflectance Sensitive Retina
Vladimir Brajovic
to appear in SPIE International Technical Group on Electronic Imaging Newsletter, January, 2004, Vol. 14, No. 1
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Shot Noise Suppression in Image Sensors
Vladimir Brajovic
submitted to SPIE, Visual Information Processing, Defense&Security Symposium, 12-16 April, 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA
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An Image Preprocessing Algorithm for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition
Ralph Gross and Vladimir Brajovic
4th Int. Con. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), pp. 10-18, June 9-11, 2003. Guildford, UK
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A Model for Reflectance Perception in Vision
Vladimir Brajovic
SPIE, EMT03 - Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2003, 19-22 May, 2003. Gran Canaria, Spain
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Lossless Non-Arbitrated Address-Event Coding
Vladimir Brajovic
Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS2003, 25-28 May, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
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An Object Tracking Computational Sensor
Vladimir Brajovic
Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2001.
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Sensory Computing
Vladimir. Brajovic and Takeo Kanade
Submitted to Int. Journal of Computer Vision, 2001.
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100 frames/s CMOS Range Image Sensor
V. Brajovic, K. Mori, and N.D. Jankovic
Digest of Technical Papers, 2001 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE, February, 2001, pp. 256-257.
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Sensory Computing
V. Brajovic
Conference 4019, Critical Technologies for the Future of Computing, SPIE’s 45th Annual Meeting,SPIE, 2001.
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Light-Sensitive CMOS Ring Oscillator
N. Jankovic and V. Brajovic 
IEEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 36, No. 15, July, 2000, pp. 1281-1283.
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A VLSI Sorting Image Sensor: Global Massively Parallel Intensity-to-Time Processing for Low-Latency, Adaptive Vision 
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 15, No. 1, February, 1999, pp. 67-75.
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A Triangulation-based VLSI Range Mapper
V. Brajovic
ISA Expo '98, Houston, TX, USA, October 21, 1998.
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Temporal Photoreception for Adaptive Dynamic Range Image Sensing and Encoding
V. Brajovic, R. Miyagawa, and T. Kanade
Neural Networks, Vol. 11, No. 7-8, October, 1998, pp. 1149-1158.
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Computational Sensor for Visual Tracking with Attention
 V. Brajovic and T. Kanade
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Vol. 33, No. 8, August, 1998, pp. 1199 - 1207.
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Integrated Vision and Sensing for Human Sensory Augmentation
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade 
DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp. 1335-1343, May 11-14, 1997.
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CCD-based range-finding sensor
Miyagawa, R.; Kanade, T.
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 44 Issue: 10 , pp. 1648 -1652, Oct. 1997. 
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Sensory Attention: A Computational Sensor Paradigm for Low-Latency Adaptive Vision
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade 
DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp. 177-184, May 11-14, 1997.
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A Sorting Image Sensor: An Example of Massively Parallel Intensity-to-Time Processing for Low-Latency Computational Sensors
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade 
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, MN, Vol. 2, April, 1996, pp. 1638-1643.
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A Sorting Computational Sensor
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade
Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-01, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1996.
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Computational Sensors for Global Operations in Vision
V. Brajovic
Doctoral dissertation, Tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1996.
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A Road-Following Computational Sensors Prototype
Andrew Gruss
1995 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, April, 1995.
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Integration-Time Based Computational Image Sensors
Ryohei Miyagawa and Takeo Kanade
1995 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, April, 1995
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New Technique For Global Operations in Embedded Imagers
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade
1995 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, April, 1995
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Computational Sensors for Global Operations
V. Brajovic and T. Kanade 
ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1994.
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A VLSI Smart Sensor for Fast Range Imaging
Andrew Gruss
Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Novemeber 13, 1991.
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A VLSI Smart Sensor for Range Imaging
A. Gruss, S. Tada and T. Kanade
Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Raleigh, NC, July 1992.
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Integrated Sensor and Range-Finding Analog Signal Processor
Andrew Gruss, Rick Carley and Takeo Kanade
IEEE JSSC, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 184-191, March 1991.
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A Very Fast VLSI Rangefinder
Takeo Kanade, Andrew Gruss and Rick Carley
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Sacramento, CA, pp. 184-191JSSC, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1991.
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A Real-Time 3D Range Mapper using On-Line Structured Illumination
V. Brajovic
M.S. Thesis, Rutgers University, May, 1990.
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Patents and Invention Disclosures

Vladimir Brajovic, “Method and Apparatus for Rapid Range Imaging,” U.S. Patent #6,421,132, June 16, 2002.
 

Vladimir Brajovic, “Focal Plane Processor,” U.S. Patent # 5,699,278, December 16, 1997.
 

Vladimir Brajovic, “Triangulation-Based High Resolution VLSI Range Sensor,” CMU Invention Disclosure 98-059, 1998.
 

Vladimir Brajovic, “An Image Sensor,” CMU Invention Disclosure 96-047, 1996.
 

Vladimir Brajovic, “Winner-Take-All Tracking Array,” CMU Invention Disclosure 95-045, 1995.
 

Vladimir Brajovic, “An Image Sensor with Built-in image enhancement Capability,” CMU Invention Disclosure 94-037, 1994.
 

Andrew Gruss, L. Richard Carley and Takeo Kanade, “Integrated circuit having at least a sensor and a processor thereon,” U.S. Patent #5,107,103, April 21, 1992.