Abstract
Lateral inhibition mechanism in human vision and tactile has effect on the edge enhancement. This mechanism is the structuring of a network so that neurons inhibit some of their neighbors. An analog circuit emulated this neuron network achieve the High-speed response. In this paper, we propose an edge detection method for an infrared proximity array with the lateral inhibition. In our approach, we first apply the photocurrent distribution obtained from that sensor to the lateral inhibition model. We then detect edge points from an edge enhancement: lateral inhibition output using zero-cross detection. Simulation and Experiments of our algorithms using that sensor are performed and favorable results are obtained.
