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This estimation cannot be done by conventional methods, such as frame-based optic flow estimation, given the size, power, and latency constraints of the necessary hardware. A practical alternative makes use of event-based vision sensors. Contrary to the frame-based approach, they produce so-called events only when there are changes in the visual scene. <\/jats:p><jats:p> We propose a novel asynchronous circuit, the spiking elementary motion detector (sEMD), composed of a single silicon neuron and synapse, to detect elementary motion from an event-based vision sensor. The sEMD encodes the time an object's image needs to travel across the retina into a burst of spikes. The number of spikes within the burst is proportional to the speed of events across the retina. A fast but imprecise estimate of the time-to-travel can already be obtained from the first two spikes of a burst and refined by subsequent interspike intervals. 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