Giving Machines Humanlike Eyes
From: IEEE Spectrum - 12/2015 - page 45
By: Christoph Posch, Ryad Benosman & Ralph Etienne-Cummings

How Neuromorphic Image Sensors Steal Tricks From the Human Eye

By prioritizing the dynamic parts of a scene, machines can capture images
more efficiently

Another natural application of neuromorphic vision sensors is in electronic
retinal implants for restoring sight to those whose vision has been lost to
disease. Indeed, two of us (Posch and Benosman) helped to found Pixium
Vision, a French company that has developed a neuromorphic retinal implant,
which is now undergoing clinical trials. Unlike competing implants under
development, which are frame based, Pixium’s products use event-based
sampling to provide patients with visual stimulation. Right now, these
implants are able to give patients only a general ability to perceive light
and shapes. But the technology should improve swiftly over the next few years
and perhaps one day will be able to offer people who have lost their natural
vision the ability to recognize faces—all thanks to artificial retinas
inspired by real ones.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/how-neuromorphic-image-sensors-steal-tricks-from-the-human-eye

Link:
Pixium Vision
http://www.pixium-vision.com/en