Digital Pixel Based Event Vision Sensor with Simultaneous Event and
Intensity Outputs
Abstract
In this letter, we report the design of a low-power event-based vision
sensor (EVS) digital pixel in a 3D-stacked 45-nm backside illumination
CMOS process. The design uses in-pixel analog-to-digital converters and
memory to store digitized light intensities. By using a bit comparator
to compare digital intensity values of the same pixel in the time
domain, the high-fidelity event stream and intensity information from
the same pixel can be generated simultaneously. The power consumption of
the proposed digital EVS pixel can be as low as 10 nW/pixel. The EVS
sensor can achieve a maximum event rate of 260 Meps.