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The sense of touch is essential for a variety of daily tasks. New advances in event-based tactile sensors and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) spur the research in event-driven tactile learning. However, SNN-enabled event-driven tactile…

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a promising energy-efficient AI model when implemented on neuromorphic hardware. However, it is a challenge to efficiently train SNNs due to their non-differentiability. Most existing methods either suffer…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal training mechanism performed entirely using spikes. There have…

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) support asynchronous event-driven computation, massive parallelism and demonstrate great potential to improve the energy efficiency of its synchronous analog counterpart. However, insufficient attention…

The drive to develop artificial neural networks that efficiently utilize resources has generated significant interest in bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). These networks are particularly attractive due to their potential in…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), recognized as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), have advanced rapidly through the scaling of models and datasets. However, such scaling incurs considerable…

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNN) in the human brain learn to perform a wide range of perceptual, cognitive and motor tasks very efficiently in terms of energy consumption and requires very few examples. This motivates the search for…

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity(STDP) is a biological process in which the precise order and timing of neuronal spikes affect the degree of synaptic modification. While there have been numerous research focusing on the role of STDP in…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibit temporal, sparse, and event-driven dynamics that make them appealing for efficient inference. However, extending these models to self-supervised regimes remains challenging because the discontinuities…

Video analysis is a major computer vision task that has received a lot of attention in recent years. The current state-of-the-art performance for video analysis is achieved with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that have high computational costs…

Deep neural networks have surpassed human performance in key visual challenges such as object recognition, but require a large amount of energy, computation, and memory. In contrast, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have the potential to…

Recent advances in event-based shape determination from polarization offer a transformative approach that tackles the trade-off between speed and accuracy in capturing surface geometries. In this paper, we investigate event-based shape from…

This work proposes a first-of-its-kind SLAM architecture fusing an event-based camera and a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar for drone navigation. Each sensor is processed by a bio-inspired Spiking Neural Network (SNN) with…

In this work, we propose ReStoCNet, a residual stochastic multilayer convolutional Spiking Neural Network (SNN) composed of binary kernels, to reduce the synaptic memory footprint and enhance the computational efficiency of SNNs for complex…

In this work, we propose time-integrated spike-timing-dependent plasticity (TI-STDP), a mathematical model of synaptic plasticity that allows spiking neural networks to continuously adapt to sensory input streams in an unsupervised fashion.…

We present a digital implementation of the Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning rule. The proposed digital implementation consists of an exponential decay generator array and a STDP adaptor array. On the arrival of a pre- and…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising in a bio-plausible coding for spatio-temporal information and event-driven signal processing, which is very suited for energy-efficient implementation in neuromorphic hardware. However, the…

The Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) has many attributes that allow it to be well suited to the task for UAV Detection. This paper is the first to look at exploiting the features of an Event Camera solely for Drone Detection while combining it…

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…