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Edge AI applications increasingly require ultra-low-power, low-latency inference. Neuromorphic computing based on event-driven spiking neural networks (SNNs) offers an attractive path, but practical deployment on resource-constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov , Derya Umut Kulali , Taner Yilmaz , Duygu Erisken , Rana Irem Turhan

Beyond providing accurate movements, achieving smooth motion trajectories is a long-standing goal of robotics control theory for arms aiming to replicate natural human movements. Drawing inspiration from biological agents, whose reaching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Ioannis Polykretis , Lazar Supic , Andreea Danielescu

In the field of robotics, event-based cameras are emerging as a promising low-power alternative to traditional frame-based cameras for capturing high-speed motion and high dynamic range scenes. This is due to their sparse and asynchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Shubham Negi , Deepika Sharma , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Neuromorphic computing aims to incorporate lessons from studying biological nervous systems in the design of computer architectures. While existing approaches have successfully implemented aspects of those computational principles, such as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-15 Christian Pehle , Luca Blessing , Elias Arnold , Eric Müller , Johannes Schemmel

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

There are two major challenges for scaling up robot navigation around dynamic obstacles: the complex interaction dynamics of the obstacles can be hard to model analytically, and the complexity of planning and control grows exponentially in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Hongzhan Yu , Chiaki Hirayama , Chenning Yu , Sylvia Herbert , Sicun Gao

Several high specificity and sensitivity seizure prediction methods with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported. However, CNNs are computationally expensive and power hungry. These inconveniences make CNN-based methods hard to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Fengshi Tian , Jie Yang , Shiqi Zhao , Mohamad Sawan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Geoffroy Keime , Nicolas Cuperlier , Benoit R. Cottereau

Neuromorphic vision sensing (NVS)\ devices represent visual information as sequences of asynchronous discrete events (a.k.a., "spikes") in response to changes in scene reflectance. Unlike conventional active pixel sensing (APS), NVS allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yin Bi , Aaron Chadha , Alhabib Abbas , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Yiannis Andreopoulos

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology enabling low-latency and energy-efficient signal processing. A key algorithmic tool in neuromorphic computing is spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are biologically inspired neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

This work aims to develop a resource-efficient solution for obstacle-avoiding tracking control of a planar snake robot in a densely cluttered environment with obstacles. Particularly, Neuro-Evolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Advik Sinha , Akshay Arjun , Abhijit Das , Joyjit Mukherjee

Bio-inspired Address Event Representation (AER) sensors have attracted significant popularity owing to their low power consumption, high sparsity, and high temporal resolution. Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has become the inherent choice for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Lakshmi Annamalai , Chetan Singh Thakur

Neuromorphic engineering is essentially the development of artificial systems, such as electronic analog circuits that employ information representations found in biological nervous systems. Despite being faster and more accurate than the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Arvind Subramaniam

Neuromorphic computing (NC) introduces a novel algorithmic paradigm representing a major shift from traditional digital computing of Von Neumann architectures. NC emulates or simulates the neural dynamics of brains in the form of Spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 El-ghazali Talbi

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Peter A. Beerel

Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate the brain's capabilities for energy efficient and parallel information processing, promising a solution to the increasing demand for faster and more efficient computational systems. Efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Gabriel Béna , Timo Wunderlich , Mahmoud Akl , Bernhard Vogginger , Christian Mayr , Hector Andres Gonzalez

Neuromorphic imaging is an emerging technique that imitates the human retina to sense variations in dynamic scenes. It responds to pixel-level brightness changes by asynchronous streaming events and boasts microsecond temporal precision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Pei Zhang , Shuo Zhu , Chutian Wang , Yaping Zhao , Edmund Y. Lam

Autonomous Driving (AD) related features provide new forms of mobility that are also beneficial for other kind of intelligent and autonomous systems like robots, smart transportation, and smart industries. For these applications, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Alberto Viale , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Souvik Kundu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

In autonomous aerial navigation, real-time and energy-efficient obstacle avoidance remains a significant challenge, especially in dynamic and complex indoor environments. This work presents a novel integration of neuromorphic event cameras…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Amogh Joshi , Sourav Sanyal , Kaushik Roy