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In this paper, we develop four spiking neural network (SNN) models for two static American Sign Language (ASL) hand gesture classification tasks, i.e., the ASL Alphabet and ASL Digits. The SNN models are deployed on Intel's neuromorphic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 MohammadReza Mohammadi , Peyton Chandarana , James Seekings , Sara Hendrix , Ramtin Zand

Brain-computer interfaces are being explored for a wide variety of therapeutic applications. Typically, this involves measuring and analyzing continuous-time electrical brain activity via techniques such as electrocorticogram (ECoG) or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yiming Ai , Bipin Rajendran

Energy efficiency and low latency are crucial requirements for designing wearable AI-empowered human activity recognition systems, due to the hard constraints of battery operations and closed-loop feedback. While neural network models have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Sizhen Bian , Michele Magno

In recent years the field of neuromorphic low-power systems that consume orders of magnitude less power gained significant momentum. However, their wider use is still hindered by the lack of algorithms that can harness the strengths of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Peter U. Diehl , Guido Zarrella , Andrew Cassidy , Bruno U. Pedroni , Emre Neftci

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

Spiking Neural Networks are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks for edge computing. Neuromorphic computing can significantly reduce energy requirements. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Balázs Mészáros , James C. Knight , Jonathan Timcheck , Thomas Nowotny

This paper presents a neuromorphic system for cognitive load classification in a real-world setting, an Air Traffic Control (ATC) task, using a hardware implementation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Electroencephalogram (EEG) and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jiahui An , Chonghao Cai , Olympia Gallou , Sara Irina Fabrikant , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisa Donati

Autonomous Driving (AD) related features provide new forms of mobility that are also beneficial for other kind of intelligent and autonomous systems like robots, smart transportation, and smart industries. For these applications, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Alberto Viale , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

Surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals result from muscle movement and hence they are an ideal candidate for benchmarking event-driven sensing and computing. We propose a simple yet novel approach for optimizing the spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Nikhil Garg , Ismael Balafrej , Yann Beilliard , Dominique Drouin , Fabien Alibart , Jean Rouat

This work proposes a novel approach for hand gesture recognition using an inexpensive, low-resolution (24 x 32) thermal sensor processed by a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) followed by Sparse Segmentation and feature-based gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Ali Safa , Wout Mommen , Lars Keuninckx

High-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) provides a noninvasive neural interface for assistive and rehabilitation control, but mapping neural activity to user motor intent remains challenging. We assess a spiking neural network (SNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Abolfazl Shahrooei , Luke Arthur , Om Patel , Derek Kamper

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

Several high specificity and sensitivity seizure prediction methods with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported. However, CNNs are computationally expensive and power hungry. These inconveniences make CNN-based methods hard to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Fengshi Tian , Jie Yang , Shiqi Zhao , Mohamad Sawan

Surface electromyography (EMG) serves as a pivotal tool in hand gesture recognition and human-computer interaction, offering a non-invasive means of signal acquisition. This study presents a novel methodology for classifying hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Najmul Hassan , Md. Maniruzzaman , Nobuyoshi Asai , Jungpil Shin

Neuromorphic vision sensor is a new bio-inspired imaging paradigm that reports asynchronous, continuously per-pixel brightness changes called `events' with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. So far, the event-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Lin Zhu , Xiao Wang , Yi Chang , Jianing Li , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

The biologically inspired spiking neurons used in neuromorphic computing are nonlinear filters with dynamic state variables -- very different from the stateless neuron models used in deep learning. The next version of Intel's neuromorphic…

Programming recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) to robustly perform multi-timescale computation remains a difficult challenge. To address this, we describe a single-shot weight learning scheme to embed robust multi-timescale dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Madison Cotteret , Hugh Greatorex , Alpha Renner , Junren Chen , Emre Neftci , Huaqiang Wu , Giacomo Indiveri , Martin Ziegler , Elisabetta Chicca

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise ultra-low-power applications by exploiting temporal and spatial sparsity. The number of binary activations, called spikes, is proportional to the power consumed when executed on neuromorphic hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Gregor Lenz , Garrick Orchard , Sadique Sheik

The capabilities of natural neural systems have inspired new generations of machine learning algorithms as well as neuromorphic very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits capable of fast, low-power information processing. However, it has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Alpha Renner , Forrest Sheldon , Anatoly Zlotnik , Louis Tao , Andrew Sornborger