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Configuring deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is an exciting research avenue for low power spike event based computation. However, the spike generation function is non-differentiable and therefore not directly compatible with the standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Sumit Bam Shrestha , Garrick Orchard

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neurons, can be operated in an event-driven manner and have internal states to retain information over time, providing opportunities for energy-efficient neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Wachirawit Ponghiran , Kaushik Roy

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a biologically inspired neural network infrastructure that has recently garnered significant attention. It utilizes binary spike activations to transmit information, thereby replacing multiplications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yufei Guo , Yuanpei Chen , Zecheng Hao , Weihang Peng , Zhou Jie , Yuhan Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Zhe Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer biologically inspired, energy-efficient alternatives to traditional Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for real-time control systems. However, their training presents several challenges, particularly for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ali Safa , Farida Mohsen , Ali Al-Zawqari

Communication by rare, binary spikes is a key factor for the energy efficiency of biological brains. However, it is harder to train biologically-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) than artificial neural networks (ANNs). This is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ana Stanojevic , Stanisław Woźniak , Guillaume Bellec , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Wulfram Gerstner

Event-based cameras have recently shown great potential for high-speed motion estimation owing to their ability to capture temporally rich information asynchronously. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their neuro-inspired event-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Deep convolutional neural networks achieve excellent image up-sampling performance. However, CNN-based methods tend to restore high-resolution results highly depending on traditional interpolations (e.g. bicubic). In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bolun Cai , Xiangmin Xu , Kailing Guo , Kui Jia , Dacheng Tao

This study proposes a hybrid curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL) framework based on a fully spiking neural network (SNN) for 9-degree-of-freedom robotic arms performing target reaching and grasping tasks. To reduce network complexity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Liwen Zhang , Heng Deng , Guanghui Sun

Transformer-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) integrate SNNs with global self-attention and have demonstrated impressive performance. However, existing Transformer-based SNNs suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, they typically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Lingdong Li , Hangming Zhang , Qiang Yu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an efficient computational mechanism for temporal signal processing, especially when coupled with low-power SNN inference ASICs. SNNs have been historically difficult to configure, lacking a general…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hannah Bos , Dylan Muir

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are one of the most promising bio-inspired neural networks models and have drawn increasing attention in recent years. The event-driven communication mechanism of SNNs allows for sparse and theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

Neuromorphic object recognition with spiking neural networks (SNNs) is the cornerstone of low-power neuromorphic computing. However, existing SNNs suffer from significant latency, utilizing 10 to 40 timesteps or more, to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Yongjun Xiao

Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaoran Yang , Shuhan Yu , Wenxi Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs), in virtue of their high biological plausibility, rich spatial-temporal dynamics, and event-driven computation. The direct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Chenlin Zhou , Han Zhang , Liutao Yu , Yumin Ye , Zhaokun Zhou , Liwei Huang , Zhengyu Ma , Xiaopeng Fan , Huihui Zhou , Yonghong Tian

Due to the high activation sparsity and use of accumulates (AC) instead of expensive multiply-and-accumulates (MAC), neuromorphic spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising low-power alternative to traditional DNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Souvik Kundu , Joe Mathai , Zihan Yin , Ajey P. Jacob , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

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

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer the promise of low-power artificial intelligence. However, training deep SNNs from scratch or converting deep artificial neural networks to SNNs without loss of performance has been a challenge.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ana Stanojevic , Stanisław Woźniak , Guillaume Bellec , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Wulfram Gerstner

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising alternative to traditional deep learning methods since they perform event-driven information processing. However, a major drawback of SNNs is high inference latency. The efficiency of SNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the information-processing mechanisms of the human brain and are highly energy-efficient, making them well-suited for low-power edge devices. However, the pursuit of accuracy in current studies leads to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Qianhui Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Malu Zhang , Gang Pan , Haizhou Li

The channel redundancy in feature maps of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) results in the large consumption of memories and computational resources. In this work, we design a novel Slim Convolution (SlimConv) module to boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jiaxiong Qiu , Cai Chen , Shuaicheng Liu , Bing Zeng