Applications of cellular neural networks for shape from shading problem

摘要

The Collular Neural Networks (CNN) model consist of many parallel analog processors computing in real time. CNN is nowadays a paradigm of cellular analog programmable multidimensional processor array with distributed local logic and memory. One desirable feature is that these processors are arranged in a two dimensional grid and have only local connections. This structure can be easily translated into a VLSI implementation, where the connections beteen the processors are determined by a cloning template. This template describes the strength of nearest-neighbour interconnections in the network. The focus of this paper is to present one new methodology to solve Shape from Shading problem using CNN. Some practical results are presented and briefly discussed, demonstrating the successful operation of the proposed algorithm.