Live Demonstration: SCAMP-7

Laurie Bose, Piotr Dudek, Stephen J. Carey, Jianing Chen

Abstract: We propose to demonstrate the next generation of the SCAMP vision sensor, SCAMP-7, whose architecture embeds programmable processing cores into each pixel. This IC allows various computer vision tasks to be performed "on-sensor" at high speeds while avoiding the slow and power hungry transfer of image data off the device. Through in-pixel computations over the image array, visual information is reduced to small amount of highly-informative ’event’ data (e.g. detection results, coordinates of objects of interest, motion vectors, etc.). This methodology reduces power consumption associated with data movements and shortens the pipeline between visual event and image information output, resulting in typical latency of a single frame time, while processing thousands frames per second.