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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude lower power consumption and low-latency inference on neuromorphic hardware for a wide range of robotic tasks. In this work, we present an energy-efficient implementation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sirine Arfa , Bernhard Vogginger , Christian Mayr

Unlike traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), biological neuronal networks solve complex cognitive tasks with sparse neuronal activity, recurrent connections, and local learning rules. These mechanisms serve as design principles in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Matteo Saponati , Chiara De Luca , Giacomo Indiveri , Benjamin Grewe

Spiking neural networks, also often referred to as the third generation of neural networks, carry the potential for a massive reduction in memory and energy consumption over traditional, second-generation neural networks. Inspired by the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Alexander Henkes , Jason K. Eshraghian , Henning Wessels

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuqiang Liu , C. Liu

Recent advances in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) are driven by artificial and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), however, using a VAD system in battery-operated devices requires further power efficiency. This can be achieved by neuromorphic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Flavio Martinelli , Giorgia Dellaferrera , Pablo Mainar , Milos Cernak

SpiNNaker is an ARM-based processor platform optimized for the simulation of spiking neural networks. This brief describes the roadmap in going from the current SPINNaker1 system, a 1 Million core machine in 130nm CMOS, to SpiNNaker2, a 10…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Christian Mayr , Sebastian Hoeppner , Steve Furber

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks that are biologically inspired to process data in a fashion that emulates the exchange of signals in the brain. Within the Computer Vision community SNNs have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 William Bjorndahl , Jack Easton , Austin Modoff , Eric C. Larson , Joseph Camp , Prasanna Rangarajan

Inspired by biology, spiking neural networks (SNNs) process information via discrete spikes over time, offering an energy-efficient alternative to the classical computing paradigm and classical artificial neural networks (ANNs). In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shayan Hundrieser , Philipp Tuchel , Insung Kong , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We seek to investigate the scalability of neuromorphic computing for computer vision, with the objective of replicating non-neuromorphic performance on computer vision tasks while reducing power consumption. We convert the deep Artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Kinjal Patel , Eric Hunsberger , Sean Batir , Chris Eliasmith

This paper presents a novel approach to neuromorphic audio processing by integrating the strengths of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), Transformers, and high-performance computing (HPC) into the HPCNeuroNet architecture. Utilizing the Intel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Murat Isik , Hiruna Vishwamith , Kayode Inadagbo , I. Can Dikmen

The increasing energy footprint of artificial intelligence systems urges alternative computational models that are both efficient and scalable. Neuromorphic Computing (NC) addresses this challenge by empowering event-driven algorithms that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jorge Mario Cruz-Duarte , El-Ghazali Talbi

Recently, both industry and academia have proposed many different neuromorphic architectures to execute applications that are designed with Spiking Neural Network (SNN). Consequently, there is a growing need for an extensible simulation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Adarsha Balaji , Shihao Song , Twisha Titirsha , Anup Das , Jeffrey Krichmar , Nikil Dutt , James Shackleford , Nagarajan Kandasamy , Francky Catthoor

This concept paper highlights a recently opened opportunity for large scale analytical algorithms to be trained directly on edge devices. Such approach is a response to the arising need of processing data generated by natural person (a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anton Akusok , Kaj-Mikael Björk , Leonardo Espinosa Leal , Yoan Miche , Renjie Hu , Amaury Lendasse

By exploiting discrete signal processing and simulating brain neuron communication, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a low-energy alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, existing SNN models, still face high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Wenxuan Pan , Feifei Zhao , Bing Han , Haibo Tong , Yi Zeng

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to implement deep neural networks (DNNs) in a more energy-efficient manner since their neurons are sparsely activated and inferences are event-driven. However, there have been very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Changze Lv , Jianhan Xu , Xiaoqing Zheng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and neuromorphic models are more efficient and have more biological realism than the activation functions typically used in deep neural networks, transformer models and generative AI. SNNs have local learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lars Niedermeier , Jeffrey L. Krichmar

In this article, we review a class of neuro-mimetic computational models that we place under the label of spiking predictive coding. Specifically, we review the general framework of predictive processing in the context of neurons that emit…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-10 Antony W. N'dri , William Gebhardt , Céline Teulière , Fleur Zeldenrust , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Jochen Triesch , Alexander Ororbia

As the demand for compute power in traditional neural networks has increased significantly, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to increasingly power-hungry neural networks. By operating on 0/1 spikes emitted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andrew Fan , Simon D. Levy

Speech enhancement is critical for improving speech intelligibility and quality in various audio devices. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have significantly improved speech enhancement performance, but they often come with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Chenxiang Ma , Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan