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Event-driven sensors such as LiDAR and dynamic vision sensor (DVS) have found increased attention in high-resolution and high-speed applications. A lot of work has been conducted to enhance recognition accuracy. However, the essential topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Shibo Zhou , Wei Wang , Xiaohua Li , Zhanpeng Jin

Event cameras are considered to have great potential for computer vision and robotics applications because of their high temporal resolution and low power consumption characteristics. However, the event stream output from event cameras has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoshan Wu , Weihua He , Man Yao , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Guoqi Li

Standard frame-based cameras that sample light intensity frames are heavily impacted by motion blur for high-speed motion and fail to perceive scene accurately when the dynamic range is high. Event-based cameras, on the other hand, overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Object detection using deep neural networks (DNNs) involves a huge amount of computation which impedes its implementation on resource/energy-limited user-end devices. The reason for the success of DNNs is due to having knowledge over all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Mohammad Farhadi Bajestani , Mehdi Ghasemi , Sarma Vrudhula , Yezhou Yang

Mobile and embedded applications require neural networks-based pattern recognition systems to perform well under a tight computational budget. In contrast to commonly used synchronous, frame-based vision systems and CNNs, asynchronous,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Bodo Rückauer , Nicolas Känzig , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Real-time object detection on energy-constrained platforms is critical for applications such as UAV-based inspection, autonomous navigation, and mobile robotics. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware are believed to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Udayanga G. W. K. N. Gamage , Yan Zeng , Cesar Cadena , Matteo Fumagalli , Silvia Tolu

This paper proposes a Fully Spiking Hybrid Neural Network (FSHNN) for energy-efficient and robust object detection in resource-constrained platforms. The network architecture is based on Convolutional SNN using leaky-integrate-fire neuron…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Xueyuan She , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency in event driven neuromorphic hardware. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-05 Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel

The high biological properties and low energy consumption of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have brought much attention in recent years. However, the converted SNNs generally need large time steps to achieve satisfactory performance, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Nemin Qiu , Zhiguo Li , Yuan Li , Chuang Zhu

Event recognition from still images is of great importance for image understanding. However, compared with event recognition in videos, there are much fewer research works on event recognition in images. This paper addresses the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Limin Wang , Zhe Wang , Wenbin Du , Yu Qiao

Event camera, as an asynchronous vision sensor capturing scene dynamics, presents new opportunities for highly efficient 3D human pose tracking. Existing approaches typically adopt modern-day Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), such as CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Shihao Zou , Yuxuan Mu , Wei Ji , Zi-An Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Weixin Si , Li Cheng

The best performing learning algorithms devised for event cameras work by first converting events into dense representations that are then processed using standard CNNs. However, these steps discard both the sparsity and high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Simon Schaefer , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Achieving optimal semantic segmentation with frame-based vision sensors poses significant challenges for real-time systems like UAVs and self-driving cars, which require rapid and precise processing. Traditional frame-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 D. Hareb , J. Martinet , B. Miramond

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising substitute for Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their advantages of fast inference and low power consumption. However, the lack of efficient training algorithms has hindered…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Tong Bu , Maohua Li , Zhaofei Yu

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to local changes in light intensity and feature low latency, high energy efficiency, and high dynamic range. Meanwhile, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hongwei Ren , Yue Zhou , Yulong Huang , Haotian Fu , Xiaopeng Lin , Jie Song , Bojun Cheng

Event cameras are ideal for visual place recognition (VPR) in challenging environments due to their high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. However, existing methods convert sparse events into dense frame-like representations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zuntao Liu , Yaohui Li , Chenming Hu , Delei Kong , Junjie Jiang , Zheng Fang

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, due to their promise to provide increased compute efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, to perform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Souvik Kundu , Gourav Datta , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as a prominent neural computing paradigm. However, the typical shallow SNN architectures have limited capacity for expressing complex representations while training deep SNNs using input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Chankyu Lee , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Priyadarshini Panda , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant traction in both computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence for their potential in energy-efficient computing. In contrast, artificial neural networks (ANNs) excel at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nhan T. Luu , Duong T. Luu , Pham Ngoc Nam , Truong Cong Thang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as the low-power alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) because of their sparse, asynchronous, and binary event-driven processing. Due to their energy efficiency, SNNs have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Youngeun Kim , Joshua Chough , Priyadarshini Panda