AUTHOR=D'Angelo Giulia , Janotte Ella , Schoepe Thorben , O'Keeffe James , Milde Moritz B. , Chicca Elisabetta , Bartolozzi Chiara TITLE=Event-Based Eccentric Motion Detection Exploiting Time Difference Encoding JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroscience VOLUME=14 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2020.00451 DOI=10.3389/fnins.2020.00451 ISSN=1662-453X ABSTRACT=

Attentional selectivity tends to follow events considered as interesting stimuli. Indeed, the motion of visual stimuli present in the environment attract our attention and allow us to react and interact with our surroundings. Extracting relevant motion information from the environment presents a challenge with regards to the high information content of the visual input. In this work we propose a novel integration between an eccentric down-sampling of the visual field, taking inspiration from the varying size of receptive fields (RFs) in the mammalian retina, and the Spiking Elementary Motion Detector (sEMD) model. We characterize the system functionality with simulated data and real world data collected with bio-inspired event driven cameras, successfully implementing motion detection along the four cardinal directions and diagonally.