Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly adopted in agriculture to monitor environmental variables to predict the presence of pests. Differently from these approaches, this paper introduces aWSN to detect the ...

This paper examines the implementation of a retinal vessel tree extraction technique on different hardware platforms and architectures. Retinal vessel tree extraction is a representative application of those found in the ...

Unlike other noise sources, which can be reduced or eliminated by different signal processing techniques, shot noise is an ever-present noise component in any imaging system. In this paper, we present an in-depth study of ...

Most video analytics applications rely on object detectors to localize objects in frames. However, when real-time is a requirement, running the detector at all the frames is usually not possible. This is somewhat circumvented ...

Object detection through convolutional neural networks is reaching unprecedented levels of precision. However, a detailed analysis of the results shows that the accuracy in the detection of small objects is still far from ...

This paper presents a Power Management Unit (PMU) powered by a 1 mm $^2$ solar cell on the same substrate to rise up the harvested voltage above 1.1 V. The on-chip solar cell and the PMU are fabricated in standard 0.18 μm ...

Computer vision applications have a large disparity in operations, data representation and memory access patterns from the early vision stages to the final classification and recognition stages. A hardware system for ...

A reliable model to analyze the dynamic behavior of two-phase switched-capacitor dc-dc converters in the slow-switching limit regime is proposed, taking into account both top and bottom parasitic capacitances as well as ...

An ultralow power CMOS voltage reference for body implantable devices is presented in this paper. The circuit core consists of only regular threshold voltage PMOS transistors, thus leading to a very reduced output voltage ...