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  • Materials Science
  • Optoelectronics
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Parallel perception of visual motion is vital for intelligent machine vision.
  • Conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology faces challenges in simultaneously encoding temporal and spatial motion information at the sensor level.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate parallel perception of diverse motion modes at the sensor level.
  • To develop an in-sensor visual motion perceptron capable of deciphering multiple motion parameters.

Main Methods:

  • Exploiting a light-tunable memory matrix in a van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure array.
  • Utilizing gate-tunable photoconductivity and light-tunable memory matrix for simultaneous spatiotemporal light pattern encoding and processing.
  • Implementing a visual motion perceptron with the developed array.

Main Results:

  • The vdW heterostructure array successfully achieved parallel perception of diverse motion modes.
  • The perceptron demonstrated the capability to decipher multiple motion parameters, including direction, velocity, acceleration, and angular velocity, in parallel.
  • Simultaneous encoding and processing of spatiotemporal light patterns were realized at the sensor level.

Conclusions:

  • The developed vdW heterostructure array offers a promising approach for in-sensor parallel motion perception.
  • This technology paves the way for realizing advanced intelligent machine vision systems.
  • The study highlights the potential of optoelectronic devices for sophisticated sensory data processing.