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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

The deployment of Artificial Intelligence on edge devices (TinyML) is often constrained by the high power consumption and latency associated with traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and their reliance on intensive Matrix-Multiply…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Debabrata Das , Yogeeth G. K. , Arnav Gupta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered to have enormous potential in the future development of Artificial Intelligence due to their brain-inspired and energy-efficient properties. Compared to vanilla Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zecheng Hao , Yifan Huang , Zijie Xu , Wenxuan Liu , Yuanhong Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Over the past decade Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have emerged as one of the popular architectures to emulate the brain. In SNN, information is temporally encoded and communication between neurons is accomplished by means of spikes. In…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Abhronil Sengupta , Aparajita Banerjee , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), models inspired by neural mechanisms in the brain, allow for energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. However, SNNs trained with current direct training approaches are constrained to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kangrui Du , Yuhang Wu , Shikuang Deng , Shi Gu

Developing effective learning systems for Machine Learning (ML) applications in the Neuromorphic (NM) field requires extensive experimentation and simulation. Software frameworks aid and ease this process by providing a set of ready-to-use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Davide Liberato Manna , Alex Vicente-Sola , Paul Kirkland , Trevor Joseph Bihl , Gaetano Di Caterina

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with event-based computation are promising brain-inspired models for energy-efficient applications on neuromorphic hardware. However, most supervised SNN training methods, such as conversion from artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

This study explores how the selection of neuron models and learning rules impacts the classification performance of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with a focus on applications in bio-signal processing. We compare biologically inspired…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-10 Zofia Rudnicka , Janusz Szczepanski , Agnieszka Pregowska

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient event-driven computation, but large-scale SNN execution remains challenging because sparse spike communication and synchronization can dominate runtime. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Muhammad Ihsan Al Hafiz , Artur Podobas

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with brain-inspired structure using discrete spikes instead of continuous activations, are gaining attention for their efficient processing on neuromorphic chips. While current SNN hardware accelerators often…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tenglong Li , Jindong Li , Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of applications. As we try to solve more advanced problems, increasing demands for computing and power resources has become inevitable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Seijoon Kim , Seongsik Park , Byunggook Na , Sungroh Yoon

Biologically plausible and energy-efficient frameworks such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have not been sufficiently explored in low-level vision tasks. Taking image deraining as an example, this study addresses the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuang Chen , Tomas Krajnik , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

We present SCM (Sleep-Consolidated Memory), a research preview of a memory architecture for large language models that draws on neuroscientific principles to address a fundamental limitation in current systems: the absence of persistent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Saish Sachin Shinde

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) capture the information processing mechanism of the brain by taking advantage of spiking neurons, such as the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model neuron, which incorporates temporal dynamics and transmits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zexiang Yi , Jing Lian , Yunliang Qi , Zhaofei Yu , Huajin Tang , Yide Ma , Jizhao Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks. They have gained widespread attention in object detection due to their low energy consumption and biological interpretability. However, existing SNN-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yimeng Fan , Changsong Liu , Mingyang Li , Dongze Liu , Yuting Su , Yanyan Liu , Wei Zhang

As neural networks get widespread adoption in resource-constrained embedded devices, there is a growing need for low-power neural systems. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)are emerging to be an energy-efficient alternative to the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Youngeun Kim , Leandros Tassiulas , Priyadarshini Panda

With the increasing development of neuromorphic platforms and their related software tools as well as the increasing scale of spiking neural network (SNN) models, there is a pressure for interoperable and scalable representations of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Felix Wang

The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Badong Chen

Implantable brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs) are evolving to record from thousands of neurons wirelessly but face challenges in data bandwidth, power consumption, and implant size. We propose a novel Spiking Neural Network Spike Detector…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Chanwook Hwang , Biyan Zhou , Ye Ke , Vivek Mohan , Jong Hwan Ko , Arindam Basu