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Professor Department of Electronic and Computer
Engineering Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology ![]() |
HKUST Campus |
Office
Room 2537 (Lift 25-26),
Tel: +852. 2358.8992
Fax: +852. 2358.1485
Research Group
Smart Sensory Integrated Systems (S2IS) Research Group
Research Interests
VLSI Circuits and Systems, Packaging
technologies, CMOS image sensors, Smart vision Systems, Electronic nose and
olfactory systems, VLSI implementation of pattern recognition algorithms.
Biography
Prof.
Amine Bermak received
the Masters and PhD degrees, both in electrical and electronic engineering
(microelectronics and Microsystems), from Paul
Sabatier University,
Over the last decade, Prof. Bermak has acquired
a significant academic and industrial experience. He has taught 14 different
courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. For his excellence and
outstanding contribution to teaching, he is a two-time recipient of the "Engineering School Teaching Excellence Award"
in HKUST for 2004 and 2009, respectively. Prof. Bermak has been very actively
involved in many research and industrial projects in collaboration with
Motorola-France, 3D plus- France, British Aerospace-UK, Intelligent Pixel Inc.
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Prof. Bermak has received five distinguished awards, including the "Best student paper award" at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and systems ISCAS 2010 (the conference featured 1081 papers and the paper received the first prize); the 2004 "IEEE Chester Sall Award" from IEEE Consumer electronics society; the IEEE Service Award from IEEE Computer Society and the "Best Paper Award" at the 2005 International Workshop on System-On-Chip for Real-Time Applications. Prof. Bermak is a member of technical program committees of a number of international conferences including the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference CICC'2006, CICC'2007, the European Solid-State Conference 2010-11, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Conference CEC'2007-11, Design Automation and Test in Europe DATE2007-08. He has published over 190 articles in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings and designed over 20 chips. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society committee on Sensory Systems as well as BIOCAS. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, the Journal of Sensors; the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, and Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering. He is the guest editor of the November 2010 special issue in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
Research
Projects
International
Journals Editorial Board
Professional Activities
Conference Chair
and Organization
o "2009 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and
Systems Conference", Beijing,
China.
o "2008 IEEE International Symposium on
Electronic Design, Test and Applications", Hong
Kong.
o "2008 Symposium on Emerging Low Power
Sensor Technologies",
Australia.
o Sensors/MEMS at the "2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. on Circuits
and Systems", Macau
o CAS at "Asia
Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED) ",
Malaysia 2010.
Conference
Technical Program Committee
Session Chair
Session
chairman in several conferences such as the "2010
IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2010", "2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
Circuits and System", "The
Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and
Information Processing,
2008", the "IEEE
International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications DELTA2004" and DELTA2006, the "International
Workshop on System-On-Chip for Real Time Applications IWSOC2005", IFIP-VLSI2005, the "7th
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems", ICECS2000, "SPIE
International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing", SPIE-VCIP2000.
Referee
Awards and Achievements
Teaching activity
Selected
Recent Journal Publications
1. K. T. Ng, F. Boussaid(*), and A.
Bermak,
"A robust CMOS single-chip gas
recognition circuit for metal oxide gas sensor arrays",
IEEE
Transaction on Circuits and Systems I,
accepted 2011.
2. X. Zhao, F. Boussaid(*), A. Bermak, and V. G. Chigrinov, "High-resolution thin guest-host micropolarizer arrays for visible imaging polarimetry", Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 5565-5573, 2011.
3. M. K. Law, C. Shi and A. Bermak, "A Low Power
Energy Harvesting Logarithmic CMOS Image Sensor with Reconfigurable Resolution
using Two-Level Quantization Scheme", IEEE Transaction on
Circuits and Systems II,
vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 80-84, 2011.
4. Q. Li and A. Bermak, "A Low-Power Hardware-Friendly
Binary Decision Tree Classifier for Gas Identification", Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, accepted in 2011.
5. C. Shi, M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A Novel
Asynchronous Pixel for Energy Harvesting CMOS Image Sensor", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 118-129, 2011.
6. D. G. Chen, D. Matolin, A. Bermak and C. Posch, "Pulse
Modulation Imaging - Review and Performance Analysis", IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 64-82, 2011.
7. H. T. Chen, K. T. Ng, A. Bermak, M. K. Law and D. Martinez, "Spike
latency coding in a biologically inspired micro-electronic nose", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011.
8. X. Zhang, S. Leomant(*), K. L. Lau and A. Bermak, "A Compact Digital Pixel Sensor
(DPS) Using 2T-DRAM", Journal
of Low Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 77-96,
2011.
9. S. Chen, A. Bermak, and Y. Wang, "A CMOS
Image Sensor with on Chip Image Compression based on Predictive Boundary Adaptation and Memoryless QTD
Algorithm", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 538-547, 2011.
10. X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid(*) and V. G. Chigrinov, "Liquid-crystal
micropolarimeter array for full Stokes polarization imaging in visible spectrum", Optics
Express, vol. 18, no. 17, pp. 17776-17787,
2010.
11. J.
Yin, J. Yi, M. K. Law, Y. Ling, M. C.
Lee, K. P. Ng, B. Gao, H. C. Luong, A.
Bermak, M. Chan, W. H. Ki, C. Y. Tsui and M. Yuen, "A
system-on-chip EPC Gen-2 passive UHF RFID tag with embedded temperature sensor", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
vol.
45, no.11, pp.
2404-2420, 2010.
12. F. Tang and A. Bermak, "A 4T Low-Power Linear-Output
Current-Mediated CMOS Imager", IEEE Transactions
on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, to appear, (10 pages), 2010.
13. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Quadrant
Based On-line Spatial and Temporal Compressive Acquisition for CMOS Image
Sensor", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, to appear, (10 pages), 2010.
14. M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "High
Voltage Generation with Stacked Photodiodes in Standard CMOS Process", IEEE
Electron Device Letters, vol. 31,
no. 12, pp. 1425-1427, 2010.
15. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "CMOS Image Sensor with
On-Chip Image Compression -A
Review and Performance Analysis", Journal of Sensors, vol. 2010, 920693, 2010.
16. M. K. Law, A. Bermak and H. C. Luong, "A
Sub-uW Embedded CMOS Temperature Sensor for RFID Food Monitoring Application", IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 6, pp.1246-1255, 2010.
17. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Compressive
Acquisition CMOS Image Sensor --From Algorithmic Solution to Hardware
Implementation", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale
Integration Systems, vol. 18, no. 3, pp.490-500, 2010.
18. X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F.
Boussaid(*), T. Du and V. G. Chigrinov, "High-resolution
photo-aligned liquid-crystal micropolarizer array for polarization imaging in
visible spectrum", Optics Letters,
vol. 34, no. 23, pp. 3619-3621, 2009.
19. M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A
405nW CMOS Temperature Sensor based on Linear MOS Operation", IEEE
Transactions Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 891-895, 2009.
20. X. Zhao, A. Bermak,
F. Boussaid(*) and V. G. Chigrinov, "Thin
PhotoPatterned Micropolarizer Array for CMOS Image Sensors", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 805-807, 2009.
21. A. B. Far, F. Flitti, B. Guo, and A. Bermak, "A
Bio-inspired Pattern recognition System for tin oxide gas sensor applications", IEEE
Sensors Journal, vol. 9, no.
6, pp.713-722, 2009.
22. X.
Li, M. Zhang, Z. Wang, A. Bermak, "A
Smart Image Sensor Integrating Low Complexity Image Processing for Wireless Endoscope
Capsule", Tsinghua
Science and Technology Journal, vol. 14, no.
5, pp. 586-592, 2009.
23. F. Flitti, B. Guo, A.B. Far and A. Bermak,
"A Robust and Low
Complexity Gas recognition Technique for on-Chip Tin-Oxide Gas Sensor Array", Journal
of Sensors, vol. 2008, pp. 1-6, 2008.
24. S. Chandrasekaran, A.
Amira, A. Bermak and M. Shi, "An
Efficient VLSI Architecture and FPGA Implementation of the Finite Ridgelet
Transform", Journal
of Real-Time Image Processing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 183-193, 2008.
25. M. Shi, A.
Bermak,
S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira, "A
Committee Machine gas identification System Based on Dynamically Reconfigurable
FPGA", IEEE
Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 403- 414, 2008.
26. S. Chen, F. Boussaid(*), and A. Bermak, "Robust
Intermediate Read-out for Deep Submicron CMOS Image Sensors", IEEE
Sensors Journal, vol. 8, pp. 286- 294, 2008.
27. B. Guo, A. Bermak, P. C. H. Chan and G. Yan, "Characterization of Integrated Tin Oxide Gas Sensors with Metal Additives and Ion Implantations", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1397-1398, 2008.
28. S. Chen and A. Bermak, "Arbitrated
Time-To-First Spike CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Histogram Equalization", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp.
346-357, 2007.
29. S. Chen, A. Bermak, Y. Wang and D. Martinez, "Adaptive-Quantization
Digital Image Sensor for Low-Power, Real-Time Image Compression", IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I: Regular papers, vol. 54,
no. 1, pp. 13-25, 2007.
30. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan and P. C.H. Chan, "A
Monolithically integrated 4x4 Tin Oxide Gas Sensor Array with on-chip
multiplexing and Differential Readout Circuits",
Solid-State Electronics, vol.
51, pp. 69-76, 2007.
31. B. Guo, A. Bermak,
P. Chan and G. Yan, "An
Integrated Surface Micro-machined Convex Micro-hotplate Structure for Tin Oxide
Gas Sensor Array", IEEE
Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no.12, pp. 1720-1726, 2007.
32. X. Zhao, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "Characterization
of a 0.18 um CMOS color processing scheme for skin detection", IEEE
Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1471-1474, 2007.
33. A. Bermak and A. Kitchen, "A
Novel Adaptive Logarithmic Digital Pixel Sensor",
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters,
vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 2147-2149, 2006.
34. M. Shi, and A. Bermak, "An
Efficient Digital VLSI Implementation of Gaussian Mixture Models-based Classifier", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 14, no. 9,
pp. 962-974, 2006.
35. S. Chen, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "A
Compact Reconfigurable Counter Memory for Spiking Pixels", IEEE
Electron Device Letters, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 255-257, 2006.
36. A. Bermak and Y. F. Yung, "A
DPS Array with programmable Resolution and reconfigurable Conversion Time", IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 14, no. 1,
pp. 15-22, 2006.
37. M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. B-Belhouari(*) and P. Chan, "Gas
Identification based on a committee machine for Microelectronics gas sensors", IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 55, no. 5, pp.
1786-1793, 2006.
38. A. Bermak and S.
B-Belhouari(*), "Bayesian
Learning using Gaussian Process for Gas Identification", IEEE
Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 55, no. 3, pp.
787- 792, 2006.
39. A. Kitchen, A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "A
DPS Array with Programmable Dynamic Range",
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 2591-2601, 2005.
40. S.
B-Belhouari(*), A. Bermak, M. Shi and P. Chan, "Fast
and Robust Gas Identification System Using an Integrated Gas Sensor Technology
and Gaussian Mixture Models", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 5, no.
6, pp. 1433-1444, 2005.
41. S.
B-Belhouari(*) and A. Bermak, "Gas
Identification using density models",
Pattern Recognition Letters,
Elsevier Science Publisher, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 699-706, 2005.
42. A. Bermak, "VLSI
Implementation of a neuromorphic spiking pixel and investigation of various
focal-plane excitation schemes", International Journal of robotics and
automation, Special issue on neuromorphic systems, vol. 19, no. 4, pp.
197-205, 2004.
43. A. Kitchen, A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "A
PWM digital pixel sensor based on asynchronous self-resetting scheme", IEEE
Electron Device Letters, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 471-473, 2004.
44. F.
Boussaid(*), A. Bermak and A. Bouzerdoum, "An
Ultra-Low power operating technique for Mega-pixels current-mediated CMOS
imagers", IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 46-53, 2004 (Winner of the 2004 IEEE Chester Sall
Award).
45. S.
B-Belhouari(*) and A. Bermak, "Gaussian
Process for Nonstationary Time series Prediction",
Journal of Computational Statistics
and Data Analysis, Elsevier Science Publisher, vol. 47, no. 4, pp.
705-712, 2004.
46. A. Bermak and D.
Martinez, "A Compact
3D VLSI Classifier using Bagging Threshold
Network Ensembles", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
vol. 14, no. 5, pp.1097-1109, 2003.
Selected Recent Conference Publications
1. F. Tang, Y. Cao and A. Bermak, "An Ultra-low Power Current-Mode CMOS Image Sensor with Energy Harvesting Capability", European Solid-State Conference (ESSCIRC 2010), pp. 126-129, Madrid 2010.
2. J. Yin, J. Yi, M. K. Law, Y. Ling, M. C. Lee. K. P. Ng, H. C. Luong, A. Bermak, et al., "A System-on-Chip EPC Gen-2 Passive UHF RFID Tag with Embedded Temperature Sensor", IEEE Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC 2010), pp. 308-309, San Francisco, 2010.
3. K. T. Ng, F. Boussaid(*) and A. Bermak, "A frequency-based signature gas identification circuit for SnO2 gas sensors", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2010), pp. 2275-2278, May, 2010, Paris, France ("Best student paper award")
4. X. Zhang, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*),"Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Low-power Multi-precision Reconfigurable Mutiplier", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2010), pp. 45-48, May, 2010, Paris, France.
5. S. Leomant(*), X. Wu and A. Bermak, "A Single Bit Memory per Pixel Time Domain DPS using Multi-Reset Integration Scheme", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2010), pp. 353-356, May, 2010, Paris, France.
6. X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid(*) and V. G. Chigrinov, "Liquid-crystal micropolarimeter array for visible linear and circular polarization imaging", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), (ISCAS 2010), pp. 637-640, May, 2010, Paris, France.
7. H. T. Chen, A. Bermak, A. Khalifa and D. Martinez, "An Integrated Wireless Electronic Nose System Integrating Sensing and Recognition Functions", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS 2010), pp. 2798-2798, May, 2010, Paris, France.
8. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Architecture of 3D Compressive Acquisition CMOS Image Sensor", IEEE Sensors Conference 2010, pp. 114-117, Nov. 2010.
9. F. Tang and A. Bermak, "Low-power and High-speed Current-mode CMOS Imager with 1T Biasing Scheme", IEEE Sensors Conference 2010, pp. 1653-1656, Nov. 2010.
10. M. Zhang, Y. Wang and A. Bermak, "Block-Based Compressive Sampling for Digital Pixel Sensor Array", Asia Symposium & Exhibits on Quality Electronic Design, ASQED 2010, pp. 9-12, Penang, Malaysia, 2010.
11. Y. Wang, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "FPGA implementation of Compressive Sampling for Sensor Network Applications", Asia Symposium & Exhibits on Quality Electronic Design, ASQED 2010, pp. 5-8, Penang, Malaysia, 2010.
12. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Architecture
of a Digital Pixel Sensor Array Using 1-bit Hilbert Predictive Coding", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2009, pp.
1501-1504.
13. K. T. Ng, H. T. Chen,
F. Boussaid(*), A. Bermak
and D.
14.
X. Zhao, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid(*), L. Yao and V. G. Chigrinov, "A
High-Resolution Micro-Circular-Polarization-Analyzer Array for Real-Time Active
Circular Polarization Imaging", IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Conference (BioCAS 2009), pp. 49-52.
15. K. T. Ng, B. Guo, A. Bermak, D. Martinez and F. Boussaid(*), "Characterization of a logarithmic spike timing encoding scheme for a 4x4 tin oxide gas sensor array", IEEE Sensor Conference, pp.731-734, New Zealand, 2009.
16. C. Shi, M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A CMOS image sensor with reconfigurable resolution for energy harvesting applications", IEEE Sensor Conference, pp. 197-200, New Zealand 2009.
17. F. Tang, A. Bermak, "Low Power Current-Mediated CMOS Imagers with Linear Current Output", Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED-ASIA 2009, pp. 284-287.
18. F. Tang, A. Bermak, "A Programmable Compact Control Mechanism for Ultra-Low Power Current-Mediated CMOS Imagers", Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED-ASIA 2009, pp. 280-283.
19. X. Wu, X. Zhao, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "An AER based CMOS polarization image sensor with photo-aligned micropolarizer array", Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED-ASIA 2009, pp. 126-130.
20. X. Zhang, A. Bermak, F. Boussaid(*), "Power Optimization in Multipliers using multi-precision combined with voltage scaling techniques", Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED-ASIA 2009, pp. 79-82.
21. Y. Wang, S. Chen and A. Bermak, "Novel
VLSI Implementation of Peano-Hilbert Curve Address Generator", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2008, pp.
476-479,
22. M. Law and A. Bermak, "A
Time Domain Differential CMOS Temperature Sensor with Reduced Supply
Sensitivity", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits
and Systems ISCAS 2008, pp. 2126-2129,
23. M. Zhang, A. Bermak, X. Li, Z. Wang, "A Low Power CMOS Image Sensor Design for Wireless Endoscopy Capsule", Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2008, pp. 397-400.
24.
X. Zhao, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "A
CMOS Digital Pixel Sensor with Photo-Patterned Micropolarizer Array for
Real-Time Focal-Plane Polarization Imaging", IEEE Biomedical Circuits and
Systems Conference (BioCAS), pp.145-148,
25. A. Bermak and M. Zhang, "Compressive
acquisition in CMOS Image Sensors - A new design paradigm", 214th Electrochemical
Society's Fourth International Symposium on Integrated
26. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "A
Compact Digital Pixel Sensor Architecture Using Predictive Coding Scheme", 7th
IEEE Conference on Sensors, pp. 961-964,
Italy, 2008.
27. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Design
of Digital Pixel Image Sensor with Adaptive Quantization and Pseudo Huffman
Coding", 15th
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp.
870-873, Malta, 2008.
28. A. Far(*),
F. Flitti(*), B. Guo and A. Bermak, "Gas
Identification System based on Temperature Modulation tin-oxide sensors and
bio-inspired processing", 15th IEEE International
Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 1010-1013, Malta,
Sept 2008.
29. M. Zhang and A. Bermak, "Architecture
of a Digital Pixel Sensor Array with Tile-Based Vector Quantization Image
Compression Algorithm", 9th Biennial Conference of the
Australian Pattern Recognition Society on Digital Image Computing Techniques
and Applications, pp. 541-546, Adelaide,
2007.
30. M. Susli, F. Boussaid(*), S. Chen and A. Bermak, "Efficient
Event-Driven Frame Capture for CMOS Imagers",
9th International Symposium on signal processing and its
applications, Sharjah, UAE, 2007.
31. S. Chandrasekaran, A.
Amira, M. Shi and A. Bermak, "Performance
Enhanced Voltage Scaling in FPGAs", International Symposium on Integrated
Circuits (ISIC 2007), pp. 477-480,
32. M. Shi, A. Bermak, S. Chandrasekaran and A. Amira, "FPGA
Based Run Time Reconfigurable Gas Discrimination System" International Symposium on Integrated
Circuits (ISIC 2007), pp. 180-183,
Singapore,
2007.
33. B. Guo, A. Bermak and D. Martinez, "A
4x4 Logarithmic Spike Timing Encoding Scheme for Olfactory Sensor Applications", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2007, pp. 3554-3557, New Orleans,
USA, 2007.
34. M. K. Law and A. Bermak, "A
CMOS Image Sensor Using Variable Reference Time Domain Encoding", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS2007, pp. 2399-2402, New Orleans,
USA, 2007.
35. B. Guo, A. Bermak, G. Yan and P. C.H. Chan, "A
Tin Oxide Gas Sensor Array with Surface Micro-machined Convex Micro-hotplates", 5th
IEEE International Conference on Sensors, pp.224-227, Daegu, Korea, Oct
22 - 25, 2006.
36. S. Chen, A. Bermak, Y. Wang and D. Martinez, "A CMOS
Image Sensor with combined adaptive-quantization and QTD-based on-chip
compression processor", IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference, CICC 2006, pp. 329-332, SJ, California, USA, Sept 2006.
37. S. Chen, A. Bermak, Y. Wang and D.
38. M. Shi, S. Chandrasekaran, A. Bermak and A. Amira, "An
Efficient FPGA Implementation of Gaussian Mixture Models-Based Classifier Using
Distributed Arithmetic", 13th IEEE International
Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp. 1276-1279, Nice,
39. M. Shi and A. Bermak, "Committee
Machine with Over 95% Classification Accuracy for Combustible Gas Identification", 13th
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, pp.
862-865, Nice,
40. F.
Boussaid(*), S. Chen and A. Bermak, "A Novel
Scalable spiking pixel architecture for deep submicron technologies", IEEE
International Conference on Design and Test of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale
Technology (DTIS), pp. 131-135, Tunisia, 2006.
41. S. Chen and A. Bermak, "A
Second Generation Time-to-First-Spike Pixel with Asynchronous Self Power-off", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2006, pp.
2289-2292, Island of Kos, Greece, 2006.
42. F.
Boussaid(*), S. Chen and A. Bermak, "A
scalable low power imager architecture for compound-eye vision sensors", 5th
International Workshop on System on Chip for Real-Time Systems, IWSOC
2005, pp.203-206,
43. B. Guo and A. Bermak, "A
Differential Readout Circuit for TO Gas Sensor Array", IEEE
Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, pp.635-638,
44. K. Wah, A. Bermak and F. Boussaid(*), "A
Second Generation Current Mode Active Pixel Sensor",
IEEE Conference on Electron Devices
and Solid-State Circuits, pp.713-716,
45. S. Chen, A. Bermak and D. Martinez, "A
CMOS vision sensor with on-the-fly histogram equalization using TFS encoding
and AER read-out", IEEE Asian-Solid State Circuit Conference
A-SSCC 2005, pp. 433-436, Taiwan, Nov. 2005.
46. A. Bermak, "An 8/4-bit
Reconfigurable Digital Pixel Array with On-Chip Non-Uniform Quantizer", IEEE
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2005, pp. 223-226, San
Jose, Califonia, USA, Sept 2005.
47. D. Climie, S. Chen, A. Bermak and D.
48. S. Chen and A. Bermak, "A
low power CMOS imager based on time-to-first-spike encoding and Fair
arbitration", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits
and Systems, ISCAS 2005, vol. 5, pp. 5306-5309, Kobe, Japan, 2005.
49. Y. F. Yung and A. Bermak, "A
PWM DPS with Pixel-Level reconfigurable 4/8-bit counter/SRAM", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, vol. 2,
pp. 1754-1757, Kobe, Japan, 2005.
50. M. Shi, S. B-Belhouari(*) and A. Bermak, "Quantization
errors in committee machine for gas sensor application", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, vol.3, pp.
1911-1914, Kobe, Japan, 2005.
51. A. Bermak, "Conversion
Time Analysis of time domain Digital Pixel Sensor in Uniform and Non-Uniform
Quantizers", at the
5th International Workshop on System on Chip for Real-Time Systems,
IWSOC 2005, pp.172-175,
52. S. Chen and A. Bermak, "A
novel low power Pulse Width Modulation vision sensor with handshaking read-out
strategy", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer
Electronics, ICCE 2005, pp.133-134, Las Vegas, USA, 2005.
53. A. Bermak, F. Boussaid(*) and A. Bouzerdoum, "A
Low power current-mode pixel with on-chip FPN cancellation and digital shutter", the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS
2004, vol. 2, pp. 345-348 Vancouver, Canada, 2004.
54. A. Bermak, and D.
Martinez, "A
reconfigurable hardware implementation of tree classifier based on a custom
chip and CPLD",
Proceedings of the IEEE TENCON,
vol. 1. pp. 32-35, Thailand, Oct. 2004.
55. W. P. Lee, C. T. Hsu, C.Y. Tsoi, A. Bermak and K. N. Leung, "Synchronization
Analysis in Spiking Pixel Architecture -Hardware
Implementation and Mismatch Analysis",
Proceedings of the IEEE TENCON,
vol. 4, pp. 274-277, Thailand, Oct. 2004.
56. S.
B-Belhouari(*), A. Bermak, G. Wei and P. C. H. Chan, "On
the use of the transient information for gas identification using
Microelectronic Gas Sensor",
Proceedings of the IEEE TENCON,
vol. 1, pp. 693-696, Thailand, Oct. 2004.
57. A. Bermak, "A
Highly Scalable 3D Chip for Binary NN Classification Applications", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS
2003, pp. 685-688, Thailand, 2003.
58. A. Bermak and M. Hopfinger, "Focal
Plane Image Segmentation Using Locally Interconnected SPA", IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2003, pp.
833-836,
59. T.
Hammadou, M. Nilson, A. Bermak and
P. Ogunbona, "A 96
/spl times/ 64 intelligent digital pixel array with extended binary stochastic
arithmetic", IEEE
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