CNN computational abilities of large infrared proximity arrays

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new hardware-software system, which applies some special modification on the original local connection attributes. The cells of this device has reflective type infrared distance sensors, each cell containing a LED and a phototransistor. The mapped surface can be not only the input of the computational system, but can form the local weights of the connections of adjacent cells. In this way, the locally adapted weightening is accomplished by the reflectance feature, which feature can modify the light of the neighboring cells. It has an important meaning: the physical environment take a part (and probably the control) of the processing. With this method, instead of using "distance image" as an input only, we can achieve more complex processing.