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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining interest due to their event-driven processing which potentially consumes low power/energy computations in hardware platforms, while offering unsupervised learning capability due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

This study introduces a novel supervised learning approach for spiking neural networks that does not rely on traditional backpropagation. Instead, it employs spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) within a supervised framework for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wei Xie

Spiking neural networks have shown much promise as an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks. However, understanding the impacts of sensor noises and input encodings on the network activity and performance remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sami Barchid , José Mennesson , Jason Eshraghian , Chaabane Djéraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Biological image processing is performed by complex neural networks composed of thousands of neurons interconnected via thousands of synapses, some of which are excitatory and others inhibitory. Spiking neural models are distinguished from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Pedro Machado , Georgina Cosma , T. M McGinnity

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising framework for event-driven temporal processing. Prior work has improved temporal modeling through richer neuron dynamics and network-level mechanisms such as recurrence and delays, but it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jongmin Choi , Joon Son Chung

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibit superior energy efficiency but suffer from limited performance. In this paper, we consider SNNs as ensembles of temporal subnetworks that share architectures and weights, and highlight a crucial issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Hanpu Deng

The primate visual cortex exhibits topographic organization, where functionally similar neurons are spatially clustered, a structure widely believed to enhance neural processing efficiency. While prior works have demonstrated that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Deming Zhou , Yuetong Fang , Zhaorui Wang , Renjing Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute and communicate with asynchronous binary temporal events that can lead to significant energy savings with neuromorphic hardware. Recent algorithmic efforts on training SNNs have shown competitive…

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

The spiking neural network (SNN), as a promising brain-inspired computational model with binary spike information transmission mechanism, rich spatially-temporal dynamics, and event-driven characteristics, has received extensive attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yufei Guo , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

The success of deep learning in the past decade is partially shrouded in the shadow of adversarial attacks. In contrast, the brain is far more robust at complex cognitive tasks. Utilizing the advantage that neurons in the brain communicate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-12 Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Jian K. Liu

Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) is a promising substitute to backpropagation for local training of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware. STDP allows SNNs to address classification tasks by combining unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Gaspard Goupy , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

Convolutional neural network (CNN) performs well in Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification tasks, but its high energy consumption and complex network structure make it difficult to directly apply it to edge computing devices. At present,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Yang Liu , Yahui Li , Rui Li , Liming Zhou , Lanxue Dang , Huiyu Mu , Qiang Ge

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are known as a typical kind of brain-inspired models with their unique features of rich neuronal dynamics, diverse coding schemes and low power consumption properties. How to obtain a high-accuracy model has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yihan Lin , Yifan Hu , Shijie Ma , Guoqi Li , Dongjie Yu

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are promising for motor rehabilitation and mobility augmentation. High-accuracy and low-power algorithms are required to achieve implantable BMI systems. In this paper, we propose a novel spiking neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Jiawei Liao , Lars Widmer , Xiaying Wang , Alfio Di Mauro , Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski , Cynthia A. Chestek , Luca Benini , Taekwang Jang

Making an informed, correct and quick decision can be life-saving. It's crucial for animals during an escape behaviour or for autonomous cars during driving. The decision can be complex and may involve an assessment of the amount of threats…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Hannes Rapp , Martin Paul Nawrot , Merav Stern

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

In the reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, the ability to predict receiving reward in the near or more distant future means the ability to evaluate the current state as more or less close to the target state (labelled by the reward signal).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Mikhail Kiselev

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) enable power-efficient implementations due to their sparse, spike-based coding scheme. This paper develops a bio-inspired SNN that uses unsupervised learning to extract discriminative features from speech…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony Maida

Compared with rate-based artificial neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) provide a more biological plausible model for the brain. But how they perform supervised learning remains elusive. Inspired by recent works of Bengio et al.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhanhao Hu , Tao Wang , Xiaolin Hu

Event-based sensors, distinguished by their high temporal resolution of 1 $\mathrm{\mu}\text{s}$ and a dynamic range of 120 $\text{dB}$, stand out as ideal tools for deployment in fast-paced settings like vehicles and drones. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hu Zhang , Yanchen Li , Luziwei Leng , Kaiwei Che , Qian Liu , Qinghai Guo , Jianxing Liao , Ran Cheng