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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency due to event-driven information processing. SNNs distribute the analog values of pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Isha Garg , Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Kaushik Roy

As neural networks get widespread adoption in resource-constrained embedded devices, there is a growing need for low-power neural systems. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)are emerging to be an energy-efficient alternative to the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Youngeun Kim , Leandros Tassiulas , Priyadarshini Panda

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown advantages in computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) thanks to their event-driven representations. SNNs also replace weight multiplications in ANNs with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Xudong Jiang , Gang Pan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are developed as a promising alternative to Artificial Neural networks (ANNs) due to their more realistic brain-inspired computing models. SNNs have sparse neuron firing over time, i.e., spatio-temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Qinyu Chen , Chang Gao , Xinyuan Fang , Haitao Luan

The Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), renowned for their bio-inspired operational mechanism and energy efficiency, mirror the human brain's neural activity. Yet, SNNs face challenges in balancing energy efficiency with the computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hongzhi Wang , Xiubo Liang , Mengjian Li , Tao Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer inherent energy efficiency due to their event-driven computation model, making them promising for edge AI deployment. However, their practical adoption is limited by the computational overhead of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Parth Patne , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Mahani , Maksim Jenihhin , Reza Mahani , Christian Herglotz

Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated substantial potential in computer vision tasks. In this paper, we present an Efficient Spiking Deraining Network, called ESDNet. Our work is motivated by the observation that rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Tianyu Song , Guiyue Jin , Pengpeng Li , Kui Jiang , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin

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

Drawing on the intricate structures of the brain, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emerge as a transformative development in artificial intelligence, closely emulating the complex dynamics of biological neural networks. While SNNs show…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yanchen Li , Jiachun Li , Kebin Sun , Luziwei Leng , Ran Cheng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are recognized as the candidate for the next-generation neural networks due to their bio-plausibility and energy efficiency. Recently, researchers have demonstrated that SNNs are able to achieve nearly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuhang Li , Youngeun Kim , Hyoungseob Park , Priyadarshini Panda

Recently spiking neural networks (SNNs), the third-generation of neural networks has shown remarkable capabilities of energy-efficient computing, which is a promising alternative for deep neural networks (DNNs) with high energy consumption.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yihao Luo , Min Xu , Caihong Yuan , Xiang Cao , Liangqi Zhang , Yan Xu , Tianjiang Wang , Qi Feng

Video analysis is a computer vision task that is useful for many applications like surveillance, human-machine interaction, and autonomous vehicles. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently the state-of-the-art methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mireille El-Assal , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered naturally suited for temporal processing, with membrane potential propagation widely regarded as the core temporal modeling mechanism. However, existing research lack analysis of its actual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yiting Dong , Zhaofei Yu , Jianhao Ding , Zijie Xu , Tiejun Huang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Despite this, bridging the performance gap with ANNs in practical scenarios remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziqing Wang , Yuetong Fang , Jiahang Cao , Renjing Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are able to learn spatiotemporal features while using less energy, especially on neuromorphic hardware. The most widely used spiking neuron in deep learning is the Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) neuron. LIF…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Sean U. N. Wood

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) demonstrate significant potential for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing through an event-driven paradigm. While training methods and computational models have greatly advanced, SNNs struggle to achieve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jieyuan Zhang , Xiaolong Zhou , Shuai Wang , Wenjie Wei , Hanwen Liu , Qian Sun , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Time-series forecasting in domains like traffic management and industrial monitoring often requires real-time, energy-efficient processing on edge devices with limited resources. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer event-driven computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kaiwen Tang , Jiaqi Zheng , Yuze Jin , Yupeng Qiu , Guangda Sun , Zhanglu Yan , Weng-Fai Wong

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach in machine learning, combining the hierarchical learning capabilities of deep neural networks with the energy efficiency of spike-based computations. Traditional end-to-end…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruyin Wan , Qian Zhang , George Em Karniadakis