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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…

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Spintronic nano-neurons offer a promising route towards energy-efficient, high-performance hardware neural networks thanks to their inherent low-input nonlinear dynamics. However, training such networks remains a major bottleneck as it…

Neuromorphic engineers aim to develop event-based spiking neural networks (SNNs) in hardware. These SNNs closer resemble dynamics of biological neurons than todays' artificial neural networks and achieve higher efficiency thanks to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-25 Hajar Asgari , BabakMazloom-Nezhad Maybodi , Raphaela Kreiser , Yulia Sandamirskaya

This paper introduces a novel approach in neuromorphic computing, integrating heterogeneous hardware nodes into a unified, massively parallel architecture. Our system transcends traditional single-node constraints, harnessing the neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Murat Isik , Jonathan Naoukin , I. Can Dikmen

Neuromorphic, or event, cameras represent a transformation in the classical approach to visual sensing encodes detected instantaneous per-pixel illumination changes into an asynchronous stream of event packets. Their novelty compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Claudio Cimarelli , Jose Andres Millan-Romera , Holger Voos , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez

Mixed-signal implementations of SNNs offer a promising solution to edge computing applications that require low-power and compact embedded processing systems. However, device mismatch in the analog circuits of these neuromorphic processors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tommaso Boccato , Dmitrii Zendrikov , Nicola Toschi , Giacomo Indiveri

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Neuromorphic event cameras possess superior temporal resolution, power efficiency, and dynamic range compared to traditional cameras. However, their asynchronous and sparse data format poses a significant challenge for conventional deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wei Fang , Priyadarshini Panda

The massively parallel nature of biological information processing plays an important role for its superiority to human-engineered computing devices. In particular, it may hold the key to overcoming the von Neumann bottleneck that limits…

Inspired by the connectivity mechanisms in the brain, neuromorphic computing architectures model Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in silicon. As such, neuromorphic architectures are designed and developed with the goal of having small, low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mihaela Dimovska , Travis Johnston , Catherine D. Schuman , J. Parker Mitchell , Thomas E. Potok

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are being explored for their potential energy efficiency resulting from sparse, event-driven computations. Many recent works have demonstrated effective backpropagation for deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Jason M. Allred , Steven J. Spencer , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

This paper gives an overview of recent progress in the brain inspired computing field with a focus on implementation using emerging memories as electronic synapses. Design considerations and challenges such as requirements and design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Sukru Burc Eryilmaz , Duygu Kuzum , Shimeng Yu , H. -S. Philip Wong

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNN) mimic the behavior of biological systems and have drawn interest for their potential to perform cognitive tasks with high energy efficiency. However, some factors such as temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Haowen Fang , Brady Taylor , Ziru Li , Zaidao Mei , Hai Li , Qinru Qiu

There is a growing necessity for edge training to adapt to dynamically changing environment. Neuromorphic computing represents a significant pathway for high-efficiency intelligent computation in energy-constrained edges, but existing…

Communication in parallel systems imposes significant overhead which often turns out to be a bottleneck in parallel machine learning. To relieve some of this overhead, in this paper, we present EventGraD - an algorithm with event-triggered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Soumyadip Ghosh , Bernardo Aquino , Vijay Gupta

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…

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Bio-inspired neuromorphic hardware is a research direction to approach brain's computational power and energy efficiency. Spiking neural networks (SNN) encode information as sparsely distributed spike trains and employ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Haowem Fang , Amar Shrestha , De Ma , Qinru Qiu

Neuromorphic perception with event-based sensors, asynchronous hardware and spiking neurons is showing promising results for real-time and energy-efficient inference in embedded systems. The next promise of brain-inspired computing is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Fernando M. Quintana , Fernando Perez-Peña , Pedro L. Galindo , Emre O. Neftci , Elisabetta Chicca , Lyes Khacef

Computational imaging systems jointly design computation and hardware to retrieve information which is not traditionally accessible with standard imaging systems. Recently, critical aspects such as experimental design and image priors are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Michael Kellman , Jon Tamir , Emrah Boston , Michael Lustig , Laura Waller

Accurate online classification of disturbance events in a transmission network is an important part of wide-area monitoring. Although many conventional machine learning techniques are very successful in classifying events, they rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Kaveri Mahapatra , Sen Lu , Abhronil Sengupta , Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri