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Conventional modeling approaches have found limitations in matching the increasingly detailed neural network structures and dynamics recorded in experiments to the diverse brain functionalities. On another approach, studies have…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Chaofei Hong

We initiate the study of biological neural networks from the perspective of streaming algorithms. Like computers, human brains suffer from memory limitations which pose a significant obstacle when processing large scale and dynamically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yael Hitron , Cameron Musco , Merav Parter

We introduce a novel spiking neural network model for learning distributed internal representations from data in an unsupervised procedure. We achieved this by transforming the non-spiking feedforward Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Naresh Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted enormous research interest due to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological plausibility. However, the formulation of efficient and high-performance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Wei Fang , Zhaofei Yu , Yanqi Chen , Timothee Masquelier , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a biologically inspired paradigm offering an energy-efficient alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) for Computer Vision (CV) applications. This paper presents a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Craig Iaboni , Pramod Abichandani

We present a spiking neural network (SNN) for visual pattern recognition with on-chip learning on neuromorphichardware. We show how this network can learn simple visual patterns composed of horizontal and vertical bars sensed by a Dynamic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Sandro Baumgartner , Alpha Renner , Raphaela Kreiser , Dongchen Liang , Giacomo Indiveri , Yulia Sandamirskaya

The current state-of-the-art object recognition algorithms, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), are inspired by the architecture of the mammalian visual system, and are capable of human-level performance on many tasks. However, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Callie Federer , Haoyan Xu , Alona Fyshe , Joel Zylberberg

Spiking neural networks (SNN) provide a new computational paradigm capable of highly parallelized, real-time processing. Photonic devices are ideal for the design of high-bandwidth, parallel architectures matching the SNN computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Luis El Srouji , Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Li Zhang , S. J. Ben Yoo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in the computational simulation and artificial intelligence fields owing to their biological plausibility and computational efficiency. This paper explores the historical development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tianyu Zheng , Liyuan Han , Tielin Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

We propose a novel approach to image classification inspired by complex nonlinear biological visual processing, whereby classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equipped with learnable higher-order convolutions. Our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Simone Azeglio , Olivier Marre , Peter Neri , Ulisse Ferrari

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammadnavid Ghader , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Bahar Farahani , Mahmood Fazlali

Autonomous driving perception demands accurate and efficient processing of three-dimensional sensor data under strict power constraints. Traditional convolutional neural networks achieve strong detection accuracy but are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sambit Mohapatra , Senthil Yogamani , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mader

Inspired by the operation of biological brains, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have the unique ability to detect information encoded in spatio-temporal patterns of spiking signals. Examples of data types requiring spatio-temporal processing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in image classification, but still show room for improvement in object-detection tasks with many categories, in particular for cluttered scenes and occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Nikolaos Karianakis , Thomas J. Fuchs , Stefano Soatto

Stacked unsupervised learning (SUL) seems more biologically plausible than backpropagation, because learning is local to each layer. But SUL has fallen far short of backpropagation in practical applications, undermining the idea that SUL…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks. This work aims to bridge the recent algorithmic progress in training Binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sen Lu , Abhronil Sengupta

Neurons in the brain communicate with each other through discrete action spikes as opposed to continuous signal transmission in artificial neural networks. Therefore, the traditional techniques for optimization of parameters in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Sneha Aenugu

The paper proposes a method to convert a deep learning object detector into an equivalent spiking neural network. The aim is to provide a conversion framework that is not constrained to shallow network structures and classification problems…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Joaquin Royo-Miquel , Silvia Tolu , Frederik E. T. Schöller , Roberto Galeazzi

Deep convolutional neural networks have proven to be well suited for image classification applications. However, if there is distortion in the image, the classification accuracy can be significantly degraded, even with state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Minho Ha , Younghoon Byeon , Youngjoo Lee , Sunggu Lee