The VLSI Systems Center

Conference Papers

1991-1996

O. Yadid-Pecht, R. Ginosar and Y. Shacham Diamand, A random access photodiode array for intelligent image capture , in Proc. of IEEE 17'th Conf. of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel, Ramat-Gan, Israel, May 1991, pp.301-304.

L. Djaloshinski, O. Yadid-Pecht and R. Ginosar, Full-precision bidirectional bit-serial convolver for real-time image processing, in Proc. of IEEE 17'th Conf. of Electrical & Electronic Engineers in Israel, Ramat-Gan, Israel, May 1991, pp. 305-308.

O. Yadid-Pecht, Widening the dynamic range of pictures, in Proc. SPIE/IS&T Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose, California, SPIE Vol. 1656, High-resolution sensors and hybrid systems, Feb. 9-14, 1992, pp. 374-382.

O. Yadid-Pecht, M. Gerner, L. Dvir, E.. Brutman, U. Shimony, Ramit - handwritten musical notes recognition using a modified Neocognitron, ICMC'92, San Jose, California, Oct. 1992.

O. Yadid-Pecht, The Automatic Wide Dynamic Range Sensor, in 1993 SID Intl. Symp., Seattle, Washington, May 18-20, 1993, pp. 495-498.

O. Yadid-Pecht, M. Gur, Modified Maxnet with fast convergence rate, in Proc. of the 10'th Isreali Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Neural Networks, December 27-28, 1993, Ramat-Gan, Israel, pp. 265-273.

M. Dornay, O. Yadid-Pecht, J. Mizrahi, E. Isakov, Z. Suzak, Learning by artificial neural networks the development of fatigue in paralyzed human muscles during isometric functional electrical stimulation, in Proc. of the 25'th Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, May 25-26, 1994, Haifa, Israel, pp. 82-84.

O. Yadid-Pecht, M. Gur, Using a diffusion-like process for clustering, in Proc. of the IEEE ICNN 1994 Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 26-July 2, 1994, pp. 2991-2996.

O. Yadid-Pecht, M. Gur, A simple possibilistic clustering neural network, in Proc. of the 12'th IAPR Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Oct. 9-13, 1994, Jerusalem, Israel, Vol. II, pp. 520-522.

O. Yadid-Pecht, M. Gur, Modified Maxnet with fast convergence rate, in Proc. SPIE on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks V, Orlando, Florida, SPIE Vol. 2243, April 5-8, 1994, pp. 111-118.

O. Yadid-Pecht, C. Clark, B. Pain, C. Staller, E. Fossum , Wide dynamic range APS star tracker, in Proc. SPIE/IS&T Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose, California, SPIE Vol. 2654, Jan 29-Feb3, 1996, pp. 82-92.

C. Clark, O. Yadid-Pecht, E. Fossum, P. Salomon, E.Dennison, Applications of APS arrays to star and feature tracking systems, in Proc SPIE, Vol. 2810, pp. 116-120, Denver, Aug 96.

1997-2000

O. Yadid-Pecht, B. Mansoorian, E. Fossum, B. Pain, Optimization of active pixel sensor noise and responsivity for scientific applications, in Proc. SPIE/IS&T Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose, California, Feb 10-13, 1997.

O. Yadid-Pecht, E. Fossum, Image sensor with ultra-high-linear-dynamic range utilizing dual output CMOS active pixel sensors, in Proc. IEEE workshop on CCDs and advanced image sensors, Bruges, Belgium, June 5-7, 1997.

O. Yadid-Pecht, E. Fossum, Readout schemes to increase dynamic range of image sensors, in NASA Tech. Briefs, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 32-33, Jan. 1997.

O. Yadid-Pecht and E. Fossum, Wide intrascene dynamic range CMOS APS using dual sampling , in 1997 IEEE Workshop Charge Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, June 1997.

G. Yang, O. Yadid-Pecht, C. Wrigley, B. Pain, A Snapshot CMOS Active Pixel Imager for low noise, high speed imaging, in Proc. IEDM, San Francisco, California, December 6-9, 1998.

C. Sun, G. Yang, C. Wrigley, O. Yadid-Pecht, B. Pain, A Smart CMOS Imager with on-chip high speed windowed centroiding capability, in Proc. IEEE workshop on CCDs and advanced image sensors, Karuizawa, Japan, June 10-12, 1999.

O. Yadid-Pecht, A. Belenky, CMOS APS with autoscaling and customized wide dynamic range, in Proc. IEEE workshop on CCDs and advanced image sensors, Karuizawa, Japan, June 10-12, 1999.

2001

O. Yadid-Pecht, A. Belenky, Autoscaling CMOS APS, in Proc. IEEE ISSCC, San Francisco, California, February 4-7, 2001.

A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS Current/Voltage Mode Winner-Take-All Circuit With Spatial Filtering, in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Sydney, Australia, May 6-9, 2001.

I. Shcherback, O. Yadid-Pecht, Empirical CMOS APS MTF Modeling, in Proc. IEEE workshop on CCDs and advanced image sensors, Reno CA, USA, June 7-9, 2001.

2002

I. Shcherback, A. Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, Active Area Shape Influence on the Dark Current of CMOS Imagers, in Proc. SPIE/IS&T Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, San-Jose CA, USA, Jan 21-25, 2002.

D. Askelrod, A. Fish, O. Yadid-Pecht, A Mixed Signal Enhanced WTA Tracking System via 2D Dynamic Element Matching, in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002.

A. Fish, D. Turchin, O. Yadid-Pecht, An APS with 2D WTA Selection Employing Adaptive Spatial Filtering, Bad Pixel Elimination and False Alarm Reduction, in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002.

A. Morgenshtein, A. Fish, I. A. Wagner, Gate-diffusion input (GDI) - a technique for low power design of digital circuits: analysis and characterization , in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002.

I. Shcherback, B. Belotserkovsky, O. Yadid-Pecht, A Unique Sub-Micron Scanning System and Its Application for Crosstalk Measurements of Active Pixel Sensors , in Proceedings of IsraMems, 2002.

2003

M. Hershkovich, O. Yadid-Pecht, A modified Multi Scale Retinex Algorithm with an Improved Global Impression of Brightness for Wide Dynamic Range Pictures in Proc. SPIE/IST Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Santa-Clara CA, USA, Jan 20-24, 2003.

I. Shcherback, B. Belotserkovsky, O. Yadid-Pecht, A Unique Sub-micron Scanning System use for CMOS APS crosstalk characterization , in Proc. SPIE on Sensors, Cameras and Systems for Scientific/Industrial Applications, San-Jose CA, USA, 22-23 January, 2003.

M. Herscovitz, E. Artyomov and O. Yadid-Pecht, Improving the global impression of brightness of the Multi Scale Retinex algorithm for Wide Dynamic Range pictures , in Proc. SPIE/IST Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Santa-Clara CA, USA, Jan 20-24, 2003.

I. Shcherback, B. Belotserkovsky, O. Yadid-Pecht, A unique Sub-micron Scanning System and its application for crosstalk measurements of Active Pixel Sensors , in Proc. SPIE/IST Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Santa-Clara CA, USA, Jan 20-24, 2003.

I. Shcherback, A Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS APS Pixel Photoresponse Prediction for Scalable CMOS Technologies , in IEEE workshop on CCDs and advanced image sensors, Schloss Elmau, Germany, 15-17 May, 2003.

A. Fish, D. Askelrod and O. Yadid-Pecht, An Adaptive Center Of Mass (COM) Detection System Employing a 2D Dynamic Element Matching (DEM) Algorithm for Object Tracking , in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28, 2003.

I. Shcherback, A Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS APS Responsivity Variation Measurement and Analysis by means of a Unique Sub-micron Scanning System , in 22nd IVS Annual Conference and Technical Workshop, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2003.

2004

I. Shcherback, T. Danov, B. Belotserkovsky, O. Yadid-Pecht, Point by Point Thorough Photoresponse Analysis of CMOS APS by means of our Unique Sub-micron Scanning System , in SPIE/IST Sym. on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Santa-Clara CA, USA, Jan 20-24, 2004.

S. Hamami, L. Fleshel and O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS APS Imager employing 3.3V 12 bit 6.3 MS/s pipelined ADC , in IEEE ISCAS, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004, Vol. 4, pp: 960-963.

A. Fish, V. Milrud, and O. Yadid-Pecht, High speed and high resolution current winner-take-all circuit in conjunction with adaptive thresholding , in Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on, Volume: 4, 23-26 May 2004, Pages: IV - 852-5, Vol.4.

A. Belenky, A. Fish, S. Hamami, V. Milrud, and O. Yadid-Pecht, Widening the dynamic range of the readout integration circuit for uncooled micro-bolometer infrared sensors , in Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on, Volume: 4, 23-26 May 2004, Pages:IV - 960-3 Vol.4.

E. Artyomov, O. Yadid-Pecht, Adaptive Multiple Resolution CMOS Active Pixel Sensor , in IEEE ISCAS 2004, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004, Vol. IV, pp. 836-839.

E. Artyomov, O. Yadid-Pecht, Practical, computation efficient High-Order Neural Network for rotation and shift invariant pattern recognition , in Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Programming 2004, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2004, pp. 37-44.

E. Artyomov, Y. Rivenson, G. Levi, O. Yadid-Pecht, Morton (Z) scan based real time variable resolution CMOS image sensor , in ICECS 2004 proceedings, 13-15 Dec. 2004, pp.145 - 148.

M. Herscovitz, O. Yadid-Pecht, A Dynamic Range Compression Algorithm Amendable for Hardware Implementation and Eliminating Halo Artifacts , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

A. Fish, A. Spivakovsky, A. Golberg and O. Yadid-Pecht, VLSI Sensor for multiple targets detection and tracking , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

A. Fish, V. Milrud and O. Yadid-Pecht, High speed and high resolution current Loser-take-all circuit of o(N) complexity , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

A. Fish, A. Belenky and O. Yadid-Pecht, Low Power Global Shutter CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor with Ultra-High Dynamic Range , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

T. Danov, I. Shcherback, O. Yadid-Pecht, Ring-Shaped N+/P-Well Photodiode: study of responsivity enhancement , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

I. Shcherback, T. Danov, O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS APS Photoresponse and Crosstalk Optimization Analysis for Scalable CMOS Technologies , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

A. Fish, V. Mosheyev, V. Linkovsky and O. Yadid-Pecht, Ultra Low-Power DFF based Shift Registers Design for CMOS Image Sensors Applications , in IEEE ICECS, Tel-Aviv, Israel, December 2004.

I. Shcherback, A. Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, CMOS APS Crosstalk; Modeling, Technology and Design Trends , in IEEE SENSORS 2004 conference, Vienna, October 2004.

I. Shcherback, B. Likhterov, A. Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, The Unique Submicron Scanning System; Novel Electrooptical Approach to Bio-chemical Detection, Monitoring and Diagnostics , in International Workshop on Defense to Biological Threats, Beer-Sheva, Dec. 2004.

2005

I. Shcherback, B. Likhterov, A. Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, Unique Sub-micron Scanning System: Further development and new applications , in SPIE/IS&T Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, California, USA, January 2005.

A. Fish, S. Hamami and O. Yadid-Pecht, Self-Powered Active Pixel Sensors for Ultra Low-Power Applications , in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.

A. Fish, E. Avner and O. Yadid-Pecht, Low-Power Global/Rolling Shutter Image Sensors in Silicon on Sapphire Technology , in Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.

I. Shcherback, B. Likhterov, A. Belenky, O. Yadid-Pecht, Intra-pixel CMOS APS MTF , in 2005 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, June 9-11, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 2005.

A. Fish and O. Yadid-Pecht, Bottleneck problem solution using biological models of attention in tracking VLSI sensors , in Proc. Hi-Tech conference, Varna, Bulgaria, June, 2005.