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Neural decoding may be formulated as dynamic state estimation (filtering) based on point process observations, a generally intractable problem. Numerical sampling techniques are often practically useful for the decoding of real neural data.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-15 Yuval Harel , Ron Meir , Manfred Opper

An integrate-and-fire time-encoding machine (IF-TEM) is an effective asynchronous sampler that translates amplitude information into non-uniform time sequences. In this work, we propose a novel Adaptive IF-TEM (AIF-TEM) approach. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Aseel Omar , Alejandro Cohen

We present a new interpretation for encoding information of the period of input signals into spike-trains in individual sensory neuronal systems. The spike-train could be described as the waveform sample of the input signal which locks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Sheng-Jun Wang , Xin-Jian Xu , Ying-Hai Wang

We introduce the spiked mixture model (SMM) to address the problem of estimating a set of signals from many randomly scaled and noisy observations. Subsequently, we design a novel expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm to recover all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-26 Paul-Louis Delacour , Sander Wahls , Jeffrey M. Spraggins , Lukasz Migas , Raf Van de Plas

Spike-based encoders represent information as sequences of spikes or pulses, which are transmitted between neurons. A prevailing consensus suggests that spike-based approaches demonstrate exceptional capabilities in capturing the temporal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Jayawan Wijekoon , Huajin Tang

One of the key challenges in training Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is that target outputs typically come in the form of natural signals, such as labels for classification or images for generative models, and need to be encoded into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone , Hyeryung Jang

Auditory front-end is an integral part of a spiking neural network (SNN) when performing auditory cognitive tasks. It encodes the temporal dynamic stimulus, such as speech and audio, into an efficient, effective and reconstructable spike…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zihan Pan , Yansong Chua , Jibin Wu , Malu Zhang , Haizhou Li , Eliathamby Ambikairajah

The analysis of the time-frequency content of a signal is a classical problem in signal processing, with a broad number of applications in real life. Many different approaches have been developed over the decades, which provide alternative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Antonio Cicone , Wing Suet Li , Haomin Zhou

We propose a construction for joint feature learning and clustering of multichannel extracellular electrophysiological data across multiple recording periods for action potential detection and discrimination ("spike sorting"). Our…

There is extensive evidence that biological neural networks encode information in the precise timing of the spikes generated and transmitted by neurons, which offers several advantages over rate-based codes. Here we adopt a vector space…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-16 Dorian Florescu , Daniel Coca

Few algorithms for supervised training of spiking neural networks exist that can deal with patterns of multiple spikes, and their computational properties are largely unexplored. We demonstrate in a set of simulations that the ReSuMe…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-05 André Grüning , Ioana Sporea

We propose a novel backpropagation algorithm for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) that encodes information in the relative multiple spike timing of individual neurons without single-spike restrictions. The proposed algorithm inherits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kakei Yamamoto , Yusuke Sakemi , Kazuyuki Aihara

In this paper we study the reconstruction of a bandlimited signal from samples generated by the integrate and fire model. This sampler allows us to trade complexity in the reconstruction algorithms for simple hardware implementations, and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-04-27 Hans G. Feichtinger , José C. Príncipe , José Luis Romero , Alexander Singh Alvarado , Gino Angelo Velasco

In this paper, we present a novel spiking neural network model designed to perform frequency decomposition of spike trains. Our model emulates neural microcircuits theorized in the somatosensory cortex, rendering it a biologically plausible…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-18 Michele Mastella , Tesse Tiemens , Elisabetta Chicca

Neuromorphic processors that implement Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) using mixed-signal analog/digital circuits represent a promising technology for closed-loop real-time processing of biosignals. As in biology, to minimize power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Rachel Sava , Elisa Donati , Giacomo Indiveri

Neural encoding parameters for spiking neural networks (SNNs) are typically set heuristically. We propose a reinforcement learning-based algorithm to optimize them. Applied to an SNN-based equalizer and demapper in an IM/DD system, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Eike-Manuel Edelmann , Alexander von Bank , Laurent Schmalen

This letter proposes a Message Passing (MP) based algorithm for demodulating the time-encoded digital modulation signal. The proposed algorithm processes the spikes generated by the Time-Encoding Machine (TEM) directly on a per-spike basis,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yuan Xu , Wenhui Xiong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered attention over recent years due to their increased energy efficiency and advantages in terms of operational complexity compared to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Two important…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Daniel Windhager , Lothar Ratschbacher , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) uses a set of images captured with different illumination patterns to computationally reconstruct resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we propose an alternative approach using a single…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Guanghan Meng , Laura Waller

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are capable of encoding and processing temporal information in a biologically plausible way. However, most existing SNN-based methods for image tasks do not fully exploit this feature. Moreover, they often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xuerui Qiu , Zheng Luan , Zhaorui Wang , Rui-Jie Zhu