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The demand for high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient object detection in autonomous systems -- such as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and Industry 4.0 robotics -- has exposed the…

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This work introduces two novel neural spike detection schemes intended for use in next-generation neuromorphic brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs). The first, an Event-based Spike Detector (Ev-SPD) which examines the temporal neighborhood of a…

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Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), particularly at the mild cognitive impairment stage, is essential for timely intervention. However, this process faces significant barriers, including reliance on subjective assessments and the…

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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…

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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.…

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The remarkable success of Vision Transformers in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to a growing interest in incorporating the self-attention mechanism and transformer-based architecture into Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). While…

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Event-based cameras are attracting significant interest as they provide rich edge information, high dynamic range, and high temporal resolution. Many state-of-the-art event-based algorithms rely on splitting the events into fixed groups,…

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Event camera-based driver monitoring is emerging as a pivotal area of research, driven by its significant advantages such as rapid response, low latency, power efficiency, enhanced privacy, and prevention of undersampling. Effective…

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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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer both compelling potential advantages, including energy efficiency and low latencies and challenges including the non-differentiable nature of event spikes. Much of the initial research in this area has…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown competitive performance to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in various vision tasks, while offering superior energy efficiency. However, existing SNN-based Transformers primarily focus on…

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by the spiking behavior of biological neurons, offer a distinctive approach for capturing the complexities of temporal data. However, their potential for spatial modeling in multivariate time-series…

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Real-world graphs or networks are usually heterogeneous, involving multiple types of nodes and relationships. Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) can effectively handle these diverse nodes and edges, capturing heterogeneous…

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Reliable visual place recognition (VPR) under dynamic real-world conditions is critical for autonomous robots, yet conventional deep networks remain limited by high computational and energy demands. Inspired by the mammalian navigation…

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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

Transformers have demonstrated outstanding performance across a wide range of tasks, owing to their self-attention mechanism, but they are highly energy-consuming. Spiking Neural Networks have emerged as a promising energy-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yufei Guo , Xiaode Liu , Yuanpei Chen , Weihang Peng , Yuhan Zhang , Zhe Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant traction in both computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence for their potential in energy-efficient computing. In contrast, artificial neural networks (ANNs) excel at…

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Recent advances in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) are driven by artificial and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), however, using a VAD system in battery-operated devices requires further power efficiency. This can be achieved by neuromorphic…

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Spiking Neural Networks(SNNs) provide a brain-inspired and event-driven mechanism that is believed to be critical to unlock energy-efficient deep learning. The mixture-of-experts approach mirrors the parallel distributed processing of…

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