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The reduction of generated data implies the possibility of lower hardware requirements and less power consumption for the hardware devices. This work proposes a filtering algorithm (LDSI\u2014Less Data Same Information) which reduces the generated data from event-based sensors without loss of relevant information. It is a bioinspired filter, i.e., event data are processed using a structure resembling biological neuronal information processing. The filter is fully configurable, from a \u201ctransparent mode\u201d to a very restrictive mode. Based on an analysis of configuration parameters, three main configurations are given: weak, medium and restrictive. Using data from a DVS event camera, results for a similarity detection algorithm show that event data can be reduced up to 30% while maintaining the same similarity index when compared to unfiltered data. Data reduction can reach 85% with a penalty of 15% in similarity index compared to the original data. An object tracking algorithm was also used to compare results of the proposed filter with other existing filter. The LDSI filter provides less error (4.86 \u00b1 1.87) when compared to the background activity filter (5.01 \u00b1 1.93). The algorithm was tested under a PC using pre-recorded datasets, and its FPGA implementation was also carried out. A Xilinx Virtex6 FPGA received data from a 128 \u00d7 128 DVS camera, applied the LDSI algorithm, created a AER dataflow and sent the data to the PC for data analysis and visualization. The FPGA could run at 177 MHz clock speed with a low resource usage (671 LUT and 40 Block RAM for the whole system), showing real time operation capabilities and very low resource usage. The results show that, using an adequate filter parameter tuning, the relevant information from the scene is kept while fewer events are generated (i.e., fewer generated data).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18124122","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,26]],"date-time":"2018-11-26T03:24:27Z","timestamp":1543202667000},"page":"4122","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Less Data Same Information for Event-Based Sensors: A Bioinspired Filtering and Data Reduction Algorithm"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Juan","family":"Barrios-Avil\u00e9s","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Group for Digital Design and Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0429-0573","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alfredo","family":"Rosado-Mu\u00f1oz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group for Digital Design and Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leandro D.","family":"Medus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group for Digital Design and Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Manuel","family":"Bataller-Mompe\u00e1n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group for Digital Design and Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6729-585X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan F.","family":"Guerrero-Mart\u00ednez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Group for Digital Design and Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"786","DOI":"10.1109\/JSSC.2014.2386899","article-title":"Selective Change Driven Vision Sensor with Continuous-Time Logarithmic Photoreceptor and Winner-Take-All Circuit for Pixel Selection","volume":"50","author":"Pardo","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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