An architecture for fault-tolerant computation with stochastic logic

W Qian, X Li, MD Riedel, K Bazargan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mounting concerns over variability, defects, and noise motivate a new approach for digital
circuitry: stochastic logic, that is to say, logic that operates on probabilistic signals and so …

A novel framework based on wavelet transform and principal component for face recognition under varying illumination

H Liang, J Gao, N Qiang - Applied Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
One of the most primitive problems in face recognition is illumination variation, which is of
significance for image processing and pattern recognition. Existing studies concentrate on …

Towards theoretical cost limit of stochastic number generators for stochastic computing

M Yang, B Li, DJ Lilja, B Yuan… - 2018 IEEE Computer …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic number generator (SNG) is one important component of stochastic computing
(SC). An SNG usually consists of a random number source (RNS) and a probability …

A reconfigurable stochastic architecture for highly reliable computing

X Li, W Qian, MD Riedel, K Bazargan… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Mounting concerns over variability, defects and noise motivate a new approach for
integrated circuits: the design of stochastic logic, that is to say, digital circuitry that operates …

A locally-adaptive approach for image gamma correction

M FarshbafDoustar… - … Conference on Information …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new adaptive gamma correction method. The method estimates
gamma values in different regions of an image and transforms individual pixels of the image …

A dynamically reconfigurable pixel processor system based on power/energy-performance-accuracy optimization

D Llamocca, M Pattichis - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a dynamically reconfigurable framework for implementing single-pixel
operations. The system relies on a multiobjective optimization scheme that generates Pareto …

[HTML][HTML] Taylor-series-based reconfigurability of gamma correction in hardware designs

D Ngo, B Kang - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gamma correction is a common image processing technique that is common in video or still
image systems. However, this simple and efficient method is typically expressed using the …

A general design of stochastic circuit and its synthesis

Z Zhao, W Qian - 2015 Design, Automation & Test in Europe …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic computing (SC) is an unconventional paradigm to realize arithmetic computation,
where real values are encoded as stochastic bit streams. Compared with conventional …

[HTML][HTML] An analog gamma correction scheme for high dynamic range CMOS logarithmic image sensors

Y Cao, X Pan, X Zhao, H Wu - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a novel analog gamma correction scheme with a logarithmic image sensor
dedicated to minimize the quantization noise of the high dynamic applications is presented …

[PDF][PDF] Synthesizing logical computation on stochastic bit streams

W Qian, MD Riedel - submitted to Communications of the ACM, 2010 - mriedel.ece.umn.edu
Most digital systems operate on a positional representation of data, such as binary radix. A
positional representation is a compact way to encode signal values: in binary radix, 2n …