1. Lecture 8 Neuromorphic Hearing 1

2. Outline The ear and the cochlea Artificial Vs biological vision systems Fundamentals of photo receptors Read-out strategies Examples of neuromorphic vision systems Further processing 2

3. Ear and Cochlea Cross Section 3

4. Retina Cells 4

5. Hair Cells 5

6. Outline The ear and the cochlea Silicon Cochlea 6

7. Resonant low pass filter with transconductance amplifiers (I) 7

8. Second order transfer function: Generic second order transfer function: 8 Resonant low pass filter with transconductance amplifiers (II)

9. Second order filters in parallel 9

10. Second order filters in cascade 10