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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Alfio Di Mauro , Moritz Scherer , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

Spike-based communication between biological neurons is sparse and unreliable. This enables the brain to process visual information from the eyes efficiently. Taking inspiration from biology, artificial spiking neural networks coupled with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Jacques Kaiser , Alexander Friedrich , J. Camilo Vasquez Tieck , Daniel Reichard , Arne Roennau , Emre Neftci , Rüdiger Dillmann

This paper presents a mixed-signal neuromorphic accelerator architecture designed for accelerating inference with event-based neural network models. This fully CMOS-compatible accelerator utilizes analog computing to emulate synapse and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Armin Abdollahi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

The rise of mobility, IoT and wearables has shifted processing to the edge of the sensors, driven by the need to reduce latency, communication costs and overall energy consumption. While deep learning models have achieved remarkable results…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Caterina Caccavella , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Marco Cannici , Lyes Khacef

Eye-tracking technology is integral to numerous consumer electronics applications, particularly in the realm of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). These applications demand solutions that excel in three crucial aspects: low-latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Baoheng Zhang , Yizhao Gao , Jingyuan Li , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

Event-based vision sensors achieve up to three orders of magnitude better speed vs. power consumption trade off in high-speed control of UAVs compared to conventional image sensors. Event-based cameras produce a sparse stream of events that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Antonio Vitale , Alpha Renner , Celine Nauer , Davide Scaramuzza , Yulia Sandamirskaya

The bioinspired event camera, distinguished by its exceptional temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption, has been extensively studied in recent years for motion estimation, robotic perception, and object detection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Liu Yuan

Eye tracking is fundamental to numerous applications, yet achieving robust, high-frequency tracking with ultra-low power consumption remains challenging for wearable platforms. While event-based vision sensors offer microsecond resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Federico Paredes-Valles , Yoshitaka Miyatani , Kirk Y. W. Scheper

Wearable electrocardiograph (ECG) recording and processing systems have been developed to detect cardiac arrhythmia to help prevent heart attacks. Conventional wearable systems, however, suffer from high energy consumption at both circuit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Jinbo Chen , Fengshi Tian , Jie Yang , Mohamad Sawan

The growing need for intelligent, adaptive, and energy-efficient autonomous systems across fields such as robotics, mobile agents (e.g., UAVs), and self-driving vehicles is driving interest in neuromorphic computing. By drawing inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Neuromorphic computing mimics computational principles of the brain in $\textit{silico}$ and motivates research into event-based vision and spiking neural networks (SNNs). Event cameras (ECs) exclusively capture local intensity changes and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Maren Bennewitz , Paul G. Plöger

As intelligent systems become increasingly important in our daily lives, new ways of interaction are needed. Classical user interfaces pose issues for the physically impaired and are partially not practical or convenient. Gesture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lea Steffen , Thomas Trapp , Arne Roennau , Rüdiger Dillmann

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

Event vision sensors (neuromorphic cameras) output sparse, asynchronous ON/OFF events triggered by log-intensity threshold crossings, enabling microsecond-scale sensing with high dynamic range and low data bandwidth. As a nonlinear system,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nimrod Kruger , Nicholas Owen Ralph , Gregory Cohen , Paul Hurley

Robust fitting of geometric models is a fundamental task in many computer vision pipelines. Numerous innovations have been produced on the topic, from improving the efficiency and accuracy of random sampling heuristics to generating novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tam Ngoc-Bang Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin

Neuromorphic computing systems comprise networks of neurons that use asynchronous events for both computation and communication. This type of representation offers several advantages in terms of bandwidth and power consumption in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Saber Moradi , Ning Qiao , Fabio Stefanini , Giacomo Indiveri

Event cameras triggered a paradigm shift in the computer vision community delineated by their asynchronous nature, low latency, and high dynamic range. Calibration of event cameras is always essential to account for the sensor intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohammed Salah , Abdulla Ayyad , Muhammad Humais , Daniel Gehrig , Abdelqader Abusafieh , Lakmal Seneviratne , Davide Scaramuzza , Yahya Zweiri

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that asynchronously represent pixel-level brightness changes as event streams. Event-based monocular multi-view stereo (EMVS) is a technique that exploits the event streams to estimate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Mingjun Li , Jianlei Yang , Yingjie Qi , Meng Dong , Yuhao Yang , Runze Liu , Weitao Pan , Bei Yu , Weisheng Zhao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now the de facto solution for computer vision problems thanks to their impressive results and ease of learning. These networks are composed of layers of connected units called artificial neurons,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Loïc Cordone , Benoît Miramond , Sonia Ferrante

We present a fully event-driven vision and processing system for selective attention and tracking, realized on a neuromorphic processor Loihi interfaced to an event-based Dynamic Vision Sensor DAVIS. The attention mechanism is realized as a…

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