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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have tremendous potential for energy-efficient neuromorphic chips due to their binary and event-driven architecture. SNNs have been primarily used in classification tasks, but limited exploration on image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Mingxuan Liu , Jie Gan , Rui Wen , Tao Li , Yongli Chen , Hong Chen

Biological neurons use spikes to process and learn temporally dynamic inputs in an energy and computationally efficient way. However, applying the state-of-the-art gradient-based supervised algorithms to spiking neural networks (SNN) is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Aref Moqadam Mehr , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Hadi Farahani

Spiking Transformers, which combine the scalability of Transformers with the sparse, energy-efficient property of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), have achieved impressive results in neuromorphic and vision tasks and attracted increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chenlin Zhou , Sihang Guo , Jiaqi Wang , Dongyang Ma , Kaiwei Che , Baiyu Chen , Qingyan Meng , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Spiking neural network (SNN) has emerged as a promising paradigm in computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, offering advantages such as low energy consumption and small memory footprint. However, their practical adoption is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nhan T. Luu , Duong T. Luu , Nam N. Pham , Thang C. Truong

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained considerable interest due to their energy-efficient characteristics, yet lack of a scalable training algorithm has restricted their applicability in practical machine learning problems. The deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Seongsik Park , Seijoon Kim , Byunggook Na , Sungroh Yoon

The machine learning community has become increasingly interested in the energy efficiency of neural networks. The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a promising approach to energy-efficient computing, since its activation levels are quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Aaron R. Voelker , Daniel Rasmussen , Chris Eliasmith

Retinal image of surrounding objects varies tremendously due to the changes in position, size, pose, illumination condition, background context, occlusion, noise, and nonrigid deformations. But despite these huge variations, our visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Timothée Masquelier

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold great potential to realize brain-inspired, energy-efficient computational systems. However, current SNNs still fall short in terms of multi-scale temporal processing compared to their biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xinyi Chen , Jibin Wu , Chenxiang Ma , Yinsong Yan , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan

In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gathered significant interest due to their temporal understanding capabilities. This work introduces, to the best of our knowledge, the first Cortical Column like hybrid architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aaron Bateni

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), as one of the brain-inspired models, has spatio-temporal information processing capability, low power feature, and high biological plausibility. The effective spatio-temporal feature makes it suitable for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

Accurate real-time object recognition from sensory data has long been a crucial and challenging task for autonomous driving. Even though deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied in this area, most existing methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Wei Wang , Shibo Zhou , Jingxi Li , Xiaohua Li , Junsong Yuan , Zhanpeng Jin

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has demonstrated its effectiveness and efficiency in vision, natural language, and speech understanding tasks, indicating their capacity to "see", "listen", and "read". In this paper, we design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Kexin Wang , Jiahong Zhang , Yong Ren , Man Yao , Di Shang , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising, energy-efficient alternative to standard Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and are particularly well-suited to spatio-temporal tasks such as keyword spotting and video classification. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zainab Aizaz , James C. Knight , Thomas Nowotny

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

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

Hardware-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) are regarded as promising candidates for the cognitive computing system due to low power consumption and highly parallel operation. In this work, we train the SNN in which the firing time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Seongbin Oh , Dongseok Kwon , Gyuho Yeom , Won-Mook Kang , Soochang Lee , Sung Yun Woo , Jang Saeng Kim , Min Kyu Park , Jong-Ho Lee

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are bio-inspired models of neural computation that have proven highly effective. Still, ANNs lack a natural notion of time, and neural units in ANNs exchange analog values in a frame-based manner, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Davide Zambrano , Roeland Nusselder , H. Steven Scholte , Sander Bohte

Keyword spotting in edge devices is becoming increasingly important as voice-activated assistants are widely used. However, its deployment is often limited by the extreme low-power constraints of the target embedded systems. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Alejandro Pequeño-Zurro , Lyes Khacef , Stefano Panzeri , Elisabetta Chicca

Biological spiking neurons with intrinsic dynamics underlie the powerful representation and learning capabilities of the brain for processing multimodal information in complex environments. Despite recent tremendous progress in spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Mingkun Xu , Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Faqiang Liu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei