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Age Estimation Based On Extended Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, Ce Zhan, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona
Age Estimation Based On Extended Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, Ce Zhan, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona
Professor Philip Ogunbona
Previous studies suggested that local appearance-based methods are more efficient than geometric-based and holistic methods for age estimation. This is mainly due to the fact that age information are usually encoded by the local features such as wrinkles and skin texture on the forehead or at the eye corners. However, the variations of theses features caused by other factors such as identity, expression, pose and lighting may be larger than that caused by aging. Thus, one of the key challenges of age estimation lies in constructing a feature space that could successfully recovers age information while ignoring other sources of …
A 96 X 64 Intelligent Digital Pixel Array With Extended Binary Stochastic Arithmetic, Tarik Hammadou, Magnus Nilson, Amine Bermak, Philip Ogunbona
A 96 X 64 Intelligent Digital Pixel Array With Extended Binary Stochastic Arithmetic, Tarik Hammadou, Magnus Nilson, Amine Bermak, Philip Ogunbona
Professor Philip Ogunbona
A chip architecture that integrates an optical sensor and a pixel level processing element based on binary stochastic arithmetic is proposed. The optical sensor is formed by an array of fully connected pixels, and each pixel contains a sensing element and a Pulse Frequency Modulator (PFM) converting the incident light to bit streams of identical pulses. The processing element is based on binary stochastic arithmetic to perform signal processing operations on the focal plane VLSI circuit. A 96 x 64 CMOS image sensor is fabricated using 0.5pm CMOS technology and achieves 29 x 29pm pixel size at 15% fill factor.