Omnidirectional sensor with retina-like CMOS

The aim of the thesis is to build a new omnidirectional vision sensor, in which the photosensitive element (CMOS) has not a rectangular geometry with square pixels, but circular with space-variant pixel density. This particular geometric organization makes the CMOS similar to the vertebrate retina, having a high-resolution area at the centre of the sensor. The sensor was developed by Giulio Sandini at the LIRA-Lab, University of Genova.

The thesis will develop algorithms inspired by human or animal vision, in order to process the low-level information acquired by the retina-like sensor.