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Excitable optoelectronic devices represent one of the key building blocks for implementation of artificial spiking neurons in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonic systems. This work introduces and experimentally investigates an…

Bio-inspired Address Event Representation (AER) sensors have attracted significant popularity owing to their low power consumption, high sparsity, and high temporal resolution. Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has become the inherent choice for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Lakshmi Annamalai , Chetan Singh Thakur

The rapid development of AR/VR, remote sensing, satellite radar, and medical equipment has created an imperative demand for ultra efficient image compression and reconstruction that exceed the capabilities of electronic processors. For the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-31 Yuhang Wang , Ang Li , Yihang Shao , Qiang Li , Yang Zhao , Shilong Pan

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

Signal processing has become central to many fields, from coherent optical telecommunications, where it is used to compensate signal impairments, to video image processing. Image processing is particularly important for observational…

As the technology industry is moving towards implementing tasks such as natural language processing, path planning, image classification, and more on smaller edge computing devices, the demand for more efficient implementations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Peyton Chandarana , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , James Seekings , Ramtin Zand

The rapid growth in computing demands, particularly driven by artificial intelligence applications, has begun to exceed the capabilities of traditional electronic hardware. Optical computing offers a promising alternative due to its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shupeng Ning , Hanqing Zhu , Chenghao Feng , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan , Ray T. Chen

Image registration is a key component of various image processing operations which involve the analysis of different image data sets. Automatic image registration domains have witnessed the application of many intelligent methodologies over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 P. V. Arun , S. K. Katiyar

In this work, we introduce an optoelectronic spiking artificial neuron capable of operating at ultrafast rates ($\approx$ 100 ps/optical spike) and with low energy consumption ($<$ pJ/spike). The proposed system combines an excitable…

Optical computing systems deliver unrivalled processing speeds for scalar operations. Yet, integrated implementations have been constrained to low-dimensional tensor operations that fall short of the vector dimensions required for modern…

Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

In voltage imaging, where the membrane potentials of individual neurons are recorded at from hundreds to thousand frames per second using fluorescence microscopy, data processing presents a challenge. Even a fraction of a minute of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Yosuke Bando , Ramdas Pillai , Atsushi Kajita , Farhan Abdul Hakeem , Yves Quemener , Hua-an Tseng , Kiryl D. Piatkevich , Changyang Linghu , Xue Han , Edward S. Boyden

This paper explores the synergistic potential of neuromorphic and edge computing to create a versatile machine learning (ML) system tailored for processing data captured by dynamic vision sensors. We construct and train hybrid models,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 James Seekings , Peyton Chandarana , Mahsa Ardakani , MohammadReza Mohammadi , Ramtin Zand

Edge AI applications increasingly require ultra-low-power, low-latency inference. Neuromorphic computing based on event-driven spiking neural networks (SNNs) offers an attractive path, but practical deployment on resource-constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov , Derya Umut Kulali , Taner Yilmaz , Duygu Erisken , Rana Irem Turhan

Neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonics leverages photonic chips to accelerate artificial intelligence, offering high-speed and energy efficient solutions in RF communication, tensor processing, and data classification. However, the limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Tristan Austin , Simon Bilodeau , Andrew Hayman , Nir Rotenberg , Bhavin Shastri

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks aim to leverage biological inspiration to achieve greater energy efficiency and computational power beyond traditional von Neumann architectured machines. In particular, spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to greatly reduce the network parametric…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Mengxi Tan , Xingyuan Xu , David J. Moss

With the remarkable progress that technology has made, the need for processing data near the sensors at the edge has increased dramatically. The electronic systems used in these applications must process data continuously, in real-time, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ole Richter , Chenxi Wu , Adrian M. Whatley , German Köstinger , Carsten Nielsen , Ning Qiao , Giacomo Indiveri