Acknowledgments

 

Creating this report has been a pleasing reward for me. In the first few days after the first public announcement in 1994 I experienced the great encouragement of the VLSI-Vision community. I was given so many fantastic ideas and suggestions in designing this report. I received information about many recent and past works, which helped me make the report more complete than what I had in mind. Since then I have received continuous and unfading support in various ways, by informing me of other vision chips, by correcting my misunderstanding of technical details, and in many other ways.

I would like to thank all those who encouraged me, supported the idea in different ways, and helped me in different ways, in alphabetical order:

• Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa (Tokyo Uni., Japan)
• Prof. Andreas Andreou (Johns Hopkins Uni., USA)
• Miguel Arias (Laval Uni., Canada)
• Dr. Thierry Bernard (ETCA/CREA/SP, France)
• Dr. Abdesselam Bouzerdoum (Adelaide Uni., Australia)
• Dr. Tobi Delbrück (Synaptics Inc., USA)
• Dr. Bart Dierickx (IMEC, Leuven, Belgium)
• Prof. Lisa Dron (Northeastern Uni., USA)
• Dr. Gamze Erten (IC Tech Inc., USA)
• Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings (Southern Illinois Uni, USA)
• Prof. Gerhard Fasol (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Dr. Robert Forchheimer (Linkoping Uni., Sweden)
• Dr. Eiichi Funatsu (Photonic LSI Technology Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan)
• Prof. Ran Ginosar (Technion, Israel)
• Dr. Mats Gvkstorp (R&D Manager, Integrated Vision Products AB, Sweden)
• Dr. Takayuki Hamamoto (The Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Rainer Hoehler (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
• Dr. Giacomo Indiveri (Caltech, USA)
• Prof. Eberhard Lange (Advanced LSI System Technology Department, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
• Dr. John Lazzaro (Berkeley & Caltech, USA)
• Ms. Shih-Chii Liu (Caltech, USA)
• Luc Le Pape (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
• Dr. Richard Lyon (Apple Computer, USA)
• Dr. Richard Meitzler (Johns Hopkins Uni., USA)
• Dr. Fernando Pardo (Diseño Electrónico y Circuitos VLSI, Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
• Prof. Robert Pinter (Washington Uni., USA)
• Dr. John Platt (Director of Research, Synaptics Inc., USA)
• Dr. Elisenda Roca (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (CNM), Spain)
• Prof. Giulio Sandini (DIST - University of Genova, Italy)
• Rahul Sarpeshkar (Caltech, USA)
• Dr. Kim Strohbehn (Johns Hopkins Uni., USA)
• Prof. Marek Syrzycki (Simon Fraser Uni., Canada)
• Prof. Marc Tremblay (Laval Uni., Canada)
• Dr. Rudi Wiedemann (President/CEO of Silicon Vision Inc.)
• Robert Wodnicki (McGill Uni., Canada)

Alireza Moini