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Measuring spins is the corner stone of a variety of analytical techniques including modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The full potential of spin imaging and sensing across length scales is hindered by the achievable signal-to-noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Steinert , F. Ziem , L. Hall , A. Zappe , M. Schweikert , A. Aird , G. Balasubramanian , L. Hollenberg , J. Wrachtrup

If modern computers are sometimes superior to humans in some specialized tasks such as playing chess or browsing a large database, they can't beat the efficiency of biological vision for such simple tasks as recognizing and following an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Laurent Perrinet

Spintronic-based neuromorphic hardware offers high-density and rapid data processing at nanoscale lengths by leveraging magnetic configurations like skyrmion and domain walls. Here, we present the maximal hardware implementation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Saumya Gupta , Venkatesh Vadde , Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Abhishek Sharma

Image processing is both one of the most exciting domains for applying artificial intelligence and the most computationally expensive. Nanostructured metasurfaces have opened the door to the ultimate energy saving by directly processing…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Bo Zhao , Lin Lin , Ameyaw Samuel , Mark Lawrence

Neuromorphic computing uses brain-inspired principles to design circuits that can perform computational tasks with superior power efficiency to conventional computers. Approaches that use traditional electronic devices to create artificial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 J. Grollier , D. Querlioz , K. Y. Camsari , K. Everschor-Sitte , S. Fukami , M. D. Stiles

Stochastic neurons are efficient hardware accelerators for solving a large variety of combinatorial optimization problems. "Binary" stochastic neurons (BSN) are those whose states fluctuate randomly between two levels +1 and -1, with the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Rahnuma Rahman , Samiran Ganguly , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

The recent progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in fields where standard computers are not able to perform. The AI paradigm is to emulate human intelligence and therefore breaks the familiar…

Why do security cameras, sensors, and siri use cloud servers instead of on-board computation? The lack of very-low-power, high-performance chips greatly limits the ability to field untethered edge devices. We present the NV-1, a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 W Hokenmaier , R Jurasek , E Bowen , R Granger , D Odom

In artificial neural networks, neurons are usually implemented with highly dissipative CMOS-based operational amplifiers. A more energy-efficient implementation is a 'spin-neuron' realized with a magneto-tunneling junction (MTJ) that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Ayan K. Biswas , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Due to the limitations of realizing artificial neural networks on prevalent von Neumann architectures, recent studies have presented neuromorphic systems based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) to reduce power and computational cost.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Joonghyun Song , Jiwon Shin , Hanseok Kim , Woo-Seok Choi

Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position, is performed by computational analysis of a digitized image.…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer high energy efficiency and event-driven computation, ideal for low-power edge AI. Their hardware implementation on FPGAs, however, faces challenges due to heavy computation, large memory use, and limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammad Javad Sekonji , Ali Mahani , Maryam Mirsadeghi , Mahdi Taheri

Brain-inspired computing concepts like artificial neural networks have become promising alternatives to classical von Neumann computer architectures. Photonic neural networks target the realizations of neurons, network connections and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-11-24 T. Heuser , M. Pflüger , I. Fischer , J. A. Lott , D. Brunner , S. Reitzenstein

Photonic neuromorphic computing offers compelling advantages in power efficiency and parallel processing, but often falls short in realizing scalable nonlinearity and long-term memory. We overcome these limitations by employing silicon…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now the de facto solution for computer vision problems thanks to their impressive results and ease of learning. These networks are composed of layers of connected units called artificial neurons,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Loïc Cordone , Benoît Miramond , Sonia Ferrante

Deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) can represent a wide range of complex functions. Implementing ANNs in Von Neumann computing systems, though, incurs a high energy cost due to the bottleneck created between CPU and memory.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 John Mern , Jayesh K Gupta , Mykel Kochenderfer

AI applications have emerged in current world. Among AI applications, computer-vision (CV) related applications have attracted high interest. Hardware implementation of CV processors necessitates a high performance but low-power image…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Li Du , Yilei Li

This paper introduces a new lightweight method for image recognition. ImageSig is based on computing signatures and does not require a convolutional structure or an attention-based encoder. It is striking to the authors that it achieves: a)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , Terry Lyons

Due to the fundamental limit to reducing power consumption of running deep learning models on von-Neumann architecture, research on neuromorphic computing systems based on low-power spiking neural networks using analog neurons is in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hanseok Kim , Woo-Seok Choi

Studying the solar system and especially the Sun relies on the data gathered daily from space missions. These missions are data-intensive and compressing this data to make them efficiently transferable to the ground station is a twofold…