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I. BOOKS
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1. D. Velasco Montero, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, Visual Inference for IoT Systems: A Practical Approach. Springer, 2022.
ISBN: 978-3-030-90902-4

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1. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, Low-power Smart Imagers for Vision-Enabled Sensor Networks. Springer, 2012.
ISBN: 978-1-4614-2391-1



II. BOOK CHAPTERS
  1. J. Fernández-Berni, M. Suárez-Cambre, R. Carmona-Galán, V. Brea, R. del Río, D. Cabello and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Image feature extraction acceleration,” in Image Feature Detectors and Descriptors, Ali Ismail Awad, M. Hassaballah, Eds. Springer, 2016, ch. 5, pp. 109-132. ISBN: 978-3-319-28854-3. [Download] 
  2. Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, P. Häfliger and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Fire detection with a frame-less vision sensor working in the NIR band," in Advances in Forest Fire Research, Domingos X. Viegas, Ed., 2014, pp. 1376-1385, ISBN: 978-989-26-0884-6. [Download]
  3. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, R. Kleihorst and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Towards an ultra-low-power low-cost wireless visual sensor node for fine-grain detection of forest fires," in Advances in Forest Fire Research, Domingos X. Viegas, Ed., 2014, pp. 1571-1581, ISBN: 978-989-26-0884-6. [Download]
  4. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Focal-plane dynamic texture segmentation by programmable binning and scale extraction,” in Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chips, Á. Zarándy, Ed. Springer, 2011, ch. 5, pp. 105–124. ISBN: 978-1-4419-6474-8. [Download]
  5. J. Fernández-Berni,  R. Carmona-Galán, Luis Carranza-González, “A vision-based monitoring system for very early automatic detection of forest fire,” in Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires, J. de las Heras, D. Viegas, C.A. Brebbia, V. Leone, Eds. WIT Press, 2008, pp. 161–170. ISBN: 978-1-84564-141-2. [Download]
III. JOURNALS
  1. Y. Lamouaraa, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, , “Single-Shot Auto-Exposure and High-Dynamic-Range Imaging Based on Asynchronous Operation of Pixel Array Circuitry,” Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. XX, no. XX, pp. XXX-XXX, 2025. DOI 10.1002/cta.4381, ISSN: 0098-9886. Impact Factor 1.8, position 223/353 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2023. [Download]
  2. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, A. Sanglas, and F. Palomares, “Reliable and Efficient Integration of AI into Camera Traps for Smart Wildlife Monitoring Based on Continual Learning,” Ecological Informatics, vol. 83, 102815, Nov. 2024. DOI 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102815, ISSN: 1574-9541. Impact Factor 5.8, position 16/195 (Q1) in category Ecology, ISI JCR 2023. Awarded in Best Paper Annual Contest 2024, Faculty of Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. [Download]
  3. D. Velasco-Montero, B. Goossens, J. Fernández-Berni, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez and W. Philips, “A Pipelining-Based Heterogeneous Scheduling and Energy-Throughput Optimization Scheme for CNNs Leveraging Apache TVM,” IEEE Access, vol. 1, pp. 35007-35021, 2023. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3264828, ISSN: 2169-3536. Impact Factor 3.4, position 122/352 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2023. [Download]
  4. T. Benoit-Cattin, D. Velasco-Montero and J. Fernández-Berni, "Impact of Thermal Throttling on Long-Term Visual Inference in a CPU-based Edge Device". Electronics (MDPI), 9 (12), 2106, Dec. 2020. DOI 10.3390/electronics9122106, ISSN: 2079-9292. Impact factor 2.397, position 145/273 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2020. [Download]
  5. G. Nunes, F. Oliveira, M. Farias, J. Gomes, A. Petraglia, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Comparison between Digital Tone-Mapping Operators and a Focal-Plane Pixel-Parallel Circuit,” Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier), vol. 88, October 2020. DOI 10.1016/j.image.2020.115937, ISSN: 0923-5965. Impact Factor 3.256, position 100/273 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2020. [Download]
  6. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “PreVIous: A Methodology for Prediction of Visual Inference Performance on IoT Devices,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 9227-9240, 2020. DOI  10.1109/JIOT.2020.2981684, ISSN: 2327-4662. Impact Factor 9.471, position 15/273 (Q1) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2020. Awarded in Best Paper Annual Contest 2020, Faculty of Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. [Download]
  7. J. Zapata, G. Doménech-Asensi, R. Ruiz-Merino, J. J. Martínez-Álvarez, J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Fixed Pattern Noise Analysis for Feature Descriptors in CMOS APS Images,” Sensing and Imaging (Springer), vol. 21, no. 14, 2020. DOI 10.1007/s11220-020-0278-3, eISSN: 1557-2072. [Download]
  8. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Performance Assessment of Deep Learning Frameworks through Metrics of Hardware Exploitation on a CPU-based Embedded Platform,” Int. Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-11, 2020. DOI 10.32985/ijeces.11.1.1, ISSN: 1847-6996. Invited paper from 26th IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), Osijek, Croatia, June 2019. [Download]
  9. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Optimum Selection of DNN Model and Framework for Edge Inference,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 51680-51692, 2018. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2869929, ISSN: 2169-3536. Impact Factor 4.098, position 23/155 (Q1) in category Computer Science, Information Systems, ISI JCR 2018. [Download]
  10. Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, J. Fernández-Berni, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, I. Vornicu and R. Carmona-Galán, “CMOS Vision Sensors: Embedding Computer Vision at Imaging Front-Ends,” IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 90-107, 2018. DOI 10.1109/MCAS.2018.2821772, ISSN: 1531-636X. Impact Factor 4.481, position 42/265 (Q1) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2018. [Download]
  11. F. D. V. R. Oliveira, J. G. R. C. Gomes, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Gaussian Pyramid: Comparative Analysis of Hardware Architectures,”  IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 2308-2321, 2017. DOI 10.1109/TCSI.2017.2709280, ISSN: 1549-8328. Impact Factor 2.823, position 74/260 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2017. [Download]
  12. J. Fernández-Berni, M. Niemier, S. Hu, H. Lu, W. Li, P. Fay, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “TFET-based Well Capacity Adjustment in Active Pixel Sensor for Enhanced High Dynamic Range,” Electronics Letters, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 622-624, 2017. DOI 10.1049/el.2016.4548, ISSN: 0013-5194. Impact Factor 1.232, position 184/260 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2017. [Download]
  13. M. Suárez, V. Brea, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, D. Cabello and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Low-Power CMOS Vision Sensor for Gaussian Pyramid Extraction,”  IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 483-495, 2017. First published on-line on October 27, 2016. DOI 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2610580. ISSN: 0018-9200. Impact Factor 4.075, position 34/260 (Q1) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2017. [Download]
  14. J. Fernández-Berni, F. D. V. R. Oliveira, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Image Sensing Scheme Enabling Fully-Programmable Light Adaptation and Tone Mapping with a Single Exposure,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 13, pp. 5121-5122, July 2016. First published on-line on April 27, 2016. DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2016.2559158. ISSN: 1530-437X. Impact Factor 2.512, position 12/58 (Q1) in category Instruments and Instrumentation, ISI JCR 2016. In Top-50 Most Accessed Articles, June 2016, IEEE Sensors. [Download]
  15. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Single-exposure HDR technique based on tunable balance between local and global adaptation,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 488-492, May 2016. First published on-line on December 3, 2015. ISSN: 1549-7747. Impact Factor 1.660, position 132/260 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2016. [Download]
  16. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “High dynamic range adaptation for ROI tracking based on reconfigurable concurrent dual sensing,” Electronics Letters, vol. 50, no. 24, pp. 1832-1834, Nov. 2014. ISSN: 0013-5194. Impact Factor 0.930, position 147/249 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2014. [Download]
  17. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río, R. Kleihorst, W. Philips and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Focal-plane sensing-processing: a power-efficient approach for the implementation of privacy-aware networked visual sensors,” Sensors (MDPI), vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 15203-15226, Aug. 2014. ISSN: 1424-8220. Impact Factor 2.245, position 10/56 (Q1) in category Instruments and Instrumentation, ISI JCR 2014. [Download]
  18. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Bottom-up performance analysis of focal-plane mixed-signal hardware for Viola-Jones early vision tasks,” Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 1063-1079, Aug. 2015. ISSN: 0098-9886. First published on-line on April 16, 2014. Impact Factor 1.254, position 124/249 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2014. [Download]
  19. R. Carmona-Galán, Á. Zarándy, C. Rekeczky, P. Foldesy, Á. Rodríguez-Pérez, C. Domínguez-Matas, J. Fernández-Berni, G. Lińán, B. Pérez-Verdú, Z. Kárász, M. Suárez-Cambre, V. Brea-Sánchez, T. Roska and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “A hierarchical vision processing architecture oriented to 3D integration of smart camera chips,” J. Syst. Architect., vol. 59, no. 10A, pp. 908-919, Nov. 2013. ISSN: 1383-7621. Impact Factor 0.689, position 32/50 (Q3) in category Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture, ISI JCR 2013. [Download]
  20. M. Suárez, V. Brea, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, G. Lińán, D. Cabello and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “CMOS-3-D smart imager architectures for feature detection,” IEEE J. on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 723–736, Dec. 2012. ISSN: 2156-3357. [Download]
  21. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Ultralow-power processing array for image enhancement and edge detection,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 751–755, Nov. 2012. ISSN: 1549-7747. Impact Factor 1.327, position 96/243 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2012. [Download]
  22. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, J. F. Martínez-Carmona and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Early forest fire detection by vision-enabled wireless sensor networks,” Int. J. of Wildland Fire, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 938–949, July 2012. ISSN: 1049-8001. Impact factor: 2.322, position 7/62 (Q1) in category Forestry, ISI JCR 2012. [Download]
  23. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and L. Carranza-González, “FLIP-Q: A QCIF resolution focal-plane array for low-power image processing,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 669–680, Mar. 2011. ISSN: 0018-9200. Impact Factor 3.226, position 15/245 (Q1) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2011.  [Download]
  24. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “All-MOS implementation of RC networks for time-controlled Gaussian spatial filtering,” Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 859–876, 2012. ISSN: 0098-9886. First published on-line on February 23, 2011. Impact Factor 1.625, position 69/245 (Q2) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2011. [Download]
  25. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “On the implementation of linear diffusion in transconductance-based cellular nonlinear networks,” Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 543–567, 2009. ISSN: 0098-9886. First published on-line on November 18, 2008. Impact Factor 2.389, position 38/229 (Q1) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2008.  [Download]
IV. EDITED MATERIAL
  1. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, G. Sicard and A. Dupret, Special Issue on "Computational Image Sensors and Smart Camera Hardware,” Int. J. of Circuit Theory and Applications, September 2018. Online ISSN: 1097-007X. Impact Factor 1.444, position 159/260 (Q3) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2017. [Download]
  2. J. Fernández-Berni, F. Berry and C. Micheloni (Guest Editors), Special Section on "Advances on distributed smart cameras (ICDSC 2015),” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 25, no. 4, 2016. ISSN: 1017-9909. Impact Factor 0.754, position 212/260 (Q4) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2016. [Download]
  3. Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, J. Fernández-Berni and José M. de la Rosa (Guest Editors), Special Issue on “Advances in sensing and communication circuits (ICECS 2012),” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 77, no. 3, Nov. 2013. ISSN: 0925-1030. Impact Factor 0.401, position 210/248 (Q4) in category Electrical and Electronic Engineering, ISI JCR 2013. [Download]
V. CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
  1. A. Khan, V. Ntinas, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, and R. Tetzlaff, “Implementation of a Multiclass Support Vector Machine on a Differential Memristor Crossbar,” in 31th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Nancy, France, Nov. 2024.
  2. D. Velasco-Montero, C. Lozano-Pons, F. Muńiz-Martín, J. Fernández-Berni, G. Bastianelli, J. Bustamante-Díaz, R. Carmona-Galán, “Implementation of Smart, Low-Power, Low-Cost Bird Acoustic Monitoring,” in 5th World Ecoacoustics Congress, Madrid, Spain, July 2024.
  3. H. Khosravi, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni, N. Kandalaft, “A Novel 10T SRAM Bit-Cell with High Static Noise Margin and Low Power Consumption for Binary In-Memory Computing,” in IEEE 14th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC, Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2024.
  4. V. Galvín-Coronil, J. Sancho-Giaever, D. Velasco-Montero, E. Tena-López, A. Sanglás, F. Palomares, D. Barclay, J. Fernández-Berni, “A Versatile Multi-Sensor Hardware Platform for Mammal Monitoring,” in XVI Congreso de la Sociedad Espańola para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos, Granollers, Spain, Dec. 2023.
  5. A. Khan, J. Fernández-Berni, and R. Carmona-Galán, “Hardware-Efficient Random-Modulation ΣΔ ADC for Per-Column CS Generation in Vision Sensor,” in 30th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 2023.
  6. A. Khan, J. Fernández-Berni, and R. Carmona-Galán, “An Analog-To-Information Architecture for Single-Chip Sensor-Processor Inference System,” in 35th IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE), Milan, Italy, Oct. 2023.
  7. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, A. Sanglas, and F. Palomares, “Towards an Efficient Smart Camera Trap for Wildlife Monitoring,”  in 3rd International Workshop on Camera Traps, AI, and Ecology, Jena, Germany, Sept. 2023.
  8. V. Galvín-Coronil, J. Sancho-Giaever, D. Velasco-Montero, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Bustamante-Díaz, R. del Río Fernández, E. Tena-López, S. Sánchez-Navarro, J. Fernández-Berni, "Low-Power Low-Cost Reconfigurable IoT Device for Remote Wildlife Monitoring,” in BEeS, The LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference, Seville, Spain, May 2023.
  9. D. Velasco-Montero, V. Galvín-Coronil, J. Sancho-Giaever, E. Tena-López, S. Sánchez-Navarro, R. del Río Fernández, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Bustamante-Díaz, J. Fernández-Berni, "Automatic Bat Counting and Reporting Based on Artificial Vision and an IoT Data Management Platform,” in BEeS, The LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference, Seville, Spain, May 2023.
  10. A. Khan, J. Fernández-Berni, and R. Carmona-Galán, “Accurate Face Recognition on Highly Compressed Samples," 16th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), Dijon, France, Oct. 2022.
  11. A. Khan, J. Fernández-Berni, and R. Carmona-Galán, “An Architecture for On-Chip Face Recognition in a Compressive Image Sensor,” in 35th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (IEEE SOCC), Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sept. 2022.
  12. A. Khan, J. Fernández-Berni, and R. Carmona-Galán, “High-Level Inference On-Chip Enabled by Compressed Sensing,” in Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS), Oporto, Portugal, Nov. 2021.
  13. A. Muńío-Gracia, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “VersaTile Convolutional Neural Network Mapping on FPGAs,” in Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, May 2020. [Download]
  14. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Demo: CNN Performance Prediction on a CPU-based Edge Platform,” in ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Trento, Italy, September 2019. [Download]
  15. A. Munio-Gracia, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “PhD Forum: Impact of CNNs Pooling Layer Implementation on FPGAs Accelerator Design,” in ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Trento, Italy, September 2019. [Download]
  16. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “On the Correlation of CNN Performance and Hardware Metrics for Visual Inference on a Low-Cost CPU-based Platform,” in 26th IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), Osijek, Croatia, June 2019. [Download]
  17. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Optimum Network/Framework Selection from High-Level Specifications in Embedded Deep Learning Vision Applications,” in Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), Poitiers, France, September 2018, ISBN 978-3-030-01448-3, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 11182 (Springer), pp. 369–379, 2018. [Download]
  18. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Demo: On-the-fly Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Heterogeneous Hardware in a Low-Cost Smart Camera,” in ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 2018. [Download]
  19. G. Nunes, F. D. V. R. Oliveira, J. G. R. C. Gomes, A. Petraglia, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Color Tone-Mapping Circuit for a Focal-Plane Implementation," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florencia, Italia, May 2018, ISBN 978-1-5386-4881-0. [Download]
  20. A. García-Rodríguez, R. Rodríguez-Sakamoto, J. Fernández-Berni, R. del Río, J. Marín, M. Baena, J. Bustamante, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Live Demonstration: Low-Power Low-Cost Cyber-Physical System for Bird Monitoring,” in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, May 2018, ISBN 978-1-5386-4881-0. [Download]
  21. D. Velasco-Montero, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Performance Analysis of Real-Time DNN Inference on Raspberry Pi,” in Real-Time Image and Video Processing Conference, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Symposium, Orlando FL USA, April 2018. [Download]
  22. M. Trevisi, H. C. Bandala, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Concurrent focal-plane generation of compressed samples from time-encoded pixel values". Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany, March 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819263-1-6, pp. 1322-1326. [Download]
  23. Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni, V. Brea, J. A. Leńero-Bardallo, "In the Quest of Vision-Sensors-on-Chip: Pre-Processing Sensors for Data Reduction," IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2017, Image Sensors and Imaging Systems Conference, San Francisco CA USA, Feb. 2017. [Download]
  24. J. Fernández-Berni, F. D. V. R. Oliveira, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Demo: Image Sensing Scheme Enabling Fully-Programmable Light Adaptation and Tone Mapping with a Single Exposure,” in ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Paris, France, September 2016, ISBN 978-1-4503-4786-0, pp. 202-203. [Download]
  25. R. Carmona-Galán, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, J. Fernández-Berni, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Pixel-wise Parameter Adaptation for Single-Exposure Extension of the Image Dynamic Range," in ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Paris, France, September 2016, ISBN 978-1-4503-4786-0, pp. 136-141. [Download]
  26. R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Experimental Evidence of Power Efficiency due to Architecture in Cellular Processor Array Chips," in International Workshop on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), Dresden, Germany, August 2016. [Download]
  27. R. Carmona-Galán, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, J. Fernández-Berni, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Image  Dynamic  Range  Extension  by  Using  Stacked  (Unmatched)  Photodiodes in CMOS," in Fith International Workshop on Architecture of Smart Camera, Dijon, France, July 2016.
  28. C. Villegas-Pachón, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Hardware-Aware Performance Evaluation for the Co-Design of Image Sensors and Vision Algorithms," in International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2016. [Download]
  29. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Live Demonstration: Single-Exposure HDR Image Acquisition Based on Tunable Balance between Local and Global Adaptation,” in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, Canada, May 2016, ISBN 978-1-4799-5340-0, p. 453. [Download]
  30. E. Parra-Barrero, J. Fernández-Berni, Fernanda D. V. R. de Oliveira, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "High-Level Performance Evaluation of Object Detection Based on Massively Parallel Focal-Plane Acceleration Requiring Minimum Pixel Area Overhead," in 11th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Rome, Italy, Feb. 2016, ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pp. 79-85. [Download]
  31. Fernanda D. V. R. de Oliveira, José G. R. C. Gomes, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Focal-Plane Scale Space Generation with a 6T Pixel Architecture," in IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2016, Image Sensors and Imaging Systems Conference, San Francisco CA USA, Feb. 2016. [Download]
  32. C. Villegas-Pachón, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Assessment of Circuit Non-Idealities' Effect on Algorithm Performance via OpenCV Modeling," in Fourth International Workshop on Architecture of Smart Camera, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2015.
  33. R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Automatic DR and spatial sampling rate adaptation for secure and privacy-aware ROI tracking based on focal-plane image processing,” in Int. Image Sensor Workshop, Vaals, The Netherlands, June 2015. [Download]
  34. M. Suárez-Cambre, V. Brea, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona Galán, D. Cabello and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Live Demonstration: Gaussian Pyramid Extraction with a CMOS Vision Sensor," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2015, pp. 1899. [Download]
  35. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río, R. Kleihorst, W. Philips and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Real-time single-exposure ROI-driven HDR adaptation based on focal-plane reconfiguration," in Real-Time Image and Video Processing, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco CA USA, Feb. 2015. [Download]
  36. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río, R. Kleihorst, W. Philips and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Demo: A prototype vision sensor for real-time focal-plane obfuscation through tunable pixelation," in IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy, Nov. 2014, pp. 49–50. [Download]
  37. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "A QVGA vision sensor with multi-functional pixels for focal-plane programmable obfuscation," in IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy, Nov. 2014, pp. 133–138. [Download]
  38. M. Suárez-Cambre, V. Brea, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona Galán, D. Cabello and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "A 26.5nJ/px 2.64Mpx/s CMOS vision sensor for Gaussian pyramid extraction,"  in European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Venice, Italy, Sep. 2014, pp. 311-314. [Download]
  39. M. Suárez-Cambre, V. Brea, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona Galán, D. Cabello and, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Demo: Gaussian Pyramid Extraction with a CMOS Vision Sensor," in IEEE Int. Work. on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), Notre-Dame IN USA, July 2014. [Download]
  40. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, R. Kleihorst, W. Philips and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Demo: Real-time focal-plane face obfuscation through programmable pixelation," in Third International Workshop on Architecture of Smart Camera, Pisa, Italy, June 2014. [Download] 
  41. Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni, S. Vargas-Sierra, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo and B. Pérez-Verdú, "Form factor improvement of smart-pixels for vision sensors through 3-D vertically-integrated technologies," in 5th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS), Santiago, Chile, Feb. 2014.
  42. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, R. del Río, Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, M. Suárez-Cambre and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Smart Imaging for Power-efficient Extraction of Viola-Jones Local Descriptors,” in Image Sensors and Imaging Systems, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco CA USA, Feb. 2014, Best Paper Award. [Download]
  43. Juan A. Leńero-Bardallo, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Review of ADCs for imaging,” in Image Sensors and Imaging Systems, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Francisco CA USA, Feb. 2014. [Download]
  44. M. Suárez, V. Brea, D. Cabello, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “A 176x120 pixel CMOS vision chip for Gaussian filtering with massivelly parallel CDS and A/D-conversion,” in IEEE European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Dresden, Germany, Sep. 2013, Third Prize, Student Paper Award. [Download]
  45. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Reconfigurable focal-plane hardware for block-wise intra-frame HDR imaging,” in Int. Image Sensor Workshop, Snowbird, Utah USA, June 2013, pp. 289–292. [Download]
  46. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Methodology and Implementation of Early Vision Tasks for the Viola-Jones Processing Framework," in Second International Workshop on Architecture of Smart Camera, Seville, Spain, June 2013. [Download]
  47. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “An ultra-low-power voltage-mode asynchronous WTA-LTA circuit,” in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Beijing, China, May 2013, pp. 1817–1820. [Download]
  48. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Demo: Real-time reporting of motion analysis with Wi-FLIP,” in IEEE Int. Work. on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), Turin, Italy, Aug. 2012.  [Download]
  49. J. Fernández-Berni, L. Acasandrei, R. Carmona-Galán, Á. Barriga-Barros and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Power-efficient focal-plane image representation for extraction of enriched Viola-Jones features,” in IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seoul, Korea, May 2012, pp. 3122–3125. [Download]
  50. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Low-power smart imagers for vision-enabled wireless sensor networks and a case study," in First International Workshop on Architecture of Smart Camera, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Apr. 2012. [Download]
  51. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Image filtering by reduced kernels exploiting kernel structure and focal-plane averaging,” in IEEE European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Linköping, Sweden, Aug. 2011, pp. 229–232. [Download]
  52. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, G. Lińán, Á. Zarándy and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Demo: Real-time reporting of active regions with Wi-FLIP,” in IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Aug. 2011. [Download]
  53. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, G. Lińán, Á. Zarándy and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Wi-FLIP: A wireless smart camera based on a focal-plane low-power image processor,” in IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Ghent, Belgium, Aug. 2011. [Download]
  54. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, L. Carranza-González, Á. Zarándy and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Focal-plane generation of multi-resolution image representation for low-power vision applications,” in SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium, Orlando FL USA, Apr. 2011, Invited Paper. [Download]
  55. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, F. Pozas-Flores, Á. Zarándy and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Multi-resolution low-power Gaussian filtering by reconfigurable focal-plane binning,” in SPIE Microtechnologies for the New Millenium, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr. 2011. [Download]
  56. F. Pozas-Flores, R. Carmona-Galán, J. Fernández-Berni and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Design of a smart SiPM based on focal-plane processing elements for improved spatial resolution in PET,” in SPIE Microtechnologies for the New Millenium, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr. 2011. [Download]
  57. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, L. Carranza-González, A. Cano-Rojas, J. F. Martínez-Carmona, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez and S. Morillas-Castillo, “On-site forest fire smoke detection by low-power autonomous vision sensor,” in 6th Int. C. on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra, Portugal, Nov. 2010. [Download]
  58. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Robust focal-plane analog processing hardware for dynamic texture segmentation,” in IEEE Int. Work. on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications (CNNA), Berkeley CA USA, Feb. 2010, pp. 453–458, Third Prize, Student Paper Award. [Download]
  59. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Accurate design of a MOS-based resistive network for time-controlled diffusion filtering,” in IEEE European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Antalya, Turkey, Aug. 2009, pp. 683–686. [Download]
  60. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Low-power focal-plane dynamic texture segmentation based on programmable image binning and diffusion hardware,” in SPIE Microtechnologies for the New Millenium, Dresden, Germany, May 2009. [Download]
  61. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and L. Carranza-González, “A VLSI-oriented and power-efficient approach for dynamic texture recognition applied to smoke detection,” in 4th Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Lisboa, Portugal, Feb. 2009, pp. 307–314. [Download]
  62. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and L. Carranza-González, “Stabilization of linear diffusion via b-template tuning in CNNs affected by mismatch,” in Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS), Seville, Spain, Nov. 2007, pp. 351–356.
  63. J. Fernández-Berni and R. Carmona-Galán, “Practical limitations to the implementation of resistive grid filtering in cellular neural networks,” in IEEE European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD), Seville, Spain, Aug. 2007, pp. 80–83. 
VI. PATENTS
  1. Yassine Lamouaraa Sedlackova, J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, "Asynchronous pixel array for single-shot concurrent auto-exposure and HDR imaging," application number P202330881, filed in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office on October 26, 2023.
  2. J. Fernández-Berni, M. Niemier, X. Sharon Hu, R. Carmona-Galán, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, "Pixel cell having a reset device with asymmetric conduction," application number 15220473, filed in the US Patent and Trademark Office on July 27, 2016.
  3. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán, Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez and Rocío del Río, “Hardware para cómputo de la imagen integral,” patent application P201400224, filed in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office on March 20, 2014. Granted on July 20, 2016.
  4. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Dispositivo para la detección hardware de extremos locales en una imagen,” international patent application P201201011 - PCT/ES2013/000225, filed in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office on October 8, 2012. Granted on November 27, 2014. Licensed by FOBOS Solutions S.L. since November 30, 2014. [Download]
  5. J. Fernández-Berni, R. Carmona-Galán and A. Rodríguez-Vázquez, “Dispositivo para la detección de bordes y mejora de calidad en una imagen,” international patent application P201200474 - PCT/ES2013/000109, filed in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office on May 3, 2012. Granted on September 2, 2014. Filed in USA on November 3, 2014 (14_398,491), granted on July 18, 2016; and in Europe on November 26, 2014 (EP13784514.5). Licensed by FOBOS Solutions S.L. since November 30, 2014.  [Download]
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