The Programmable Digital Camera (PDC) project is a collaborative
research effort between Stanford University and a distinguished group
of industrial partners to investigate algorithms, architectures and
circuit designs for single chip programmable digital cameras. The
envisioned applications include: still and video digital cameras,
video phones, networked cameras for surveillance and security, high
dynamic range cameras for automotive and industrial applications, and
computer vision.
The Stanford team is led by Professor
Abbas El Gamal and Professor Brian Wandell
.
Current industrial partners of the PDC
project are:
A key contribution of the project has been
the development of the Digital Pixel Sensor (DPS). In a DPS, the
analog-to-digital conversion is performed at the pixel level. This
provides several key advantages including:
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High speed readout
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High dynamic range
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High signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR)
Click here to see images taken by our 10,000 FPS 352x288 DPS built in a standard 0.18um CMOS process
Click here to see a video clip of a propeller taken by our 10,000 FPS 352x288 DPS
Click here to see a video clip of a milk droplet taken by our 10,000 FPS 352x288 DPS
Click here to see images taken by our 640X512 DPS built in a standard 0.35um CMOS process
If you are interested in learning
about image sensors and digital cameras, check out
the course:
EE392B:
Introduction to Image
Sensors and Digital Cameras.
Consortium mailing list
Employees of the consortium companies may subscribe
to the general PDC mailing list. (If your company is not part of the consortium,
then please do not subscribe to the mailing list). To subscribe, send a
message to:
containing the message:
You will then be able to receive (and send) mail
sent to the general distribution of PDC partners.
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