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Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology that support event-driven data processing for applications requiring efficient online inference and/or control. Recent work has introduced the concept of neuromorphic communications, whereby…
As the quantities of data recorded by embedded edge sensors grow, so too does the need for intelligent local processing. Such data often comes in the form of time-series signals, based on which real-time predictions can be made locally…
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…
The ability to attend to salient regions of a visual scene is an innate and necessary preprocessing step for both biological and engineered systems performing high-level visual tasks (e.g. object detection, tracking, and classification).…
Unsupervised feature extraction algorithms form one of the most important building blocks in machine learning systems. These algorithms are often adapted to the event-based domain to perform online learning in neuromorphic hardware.…
Active vision enables dynamic visual perception, offering an alternative to static feedforward architectures in computer vision, which rely on large datasets and high computational resources. Biological selective attention mechanisms allow…
This paper introduces a novel framework for robotic vision-based navigation that integrates Hybrid Neural Networks (HNNs) with Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based filtering to enhance situational awareness for unmodeled obstacle detection…
In this work, we present optical space imaging using an unconventional yet promising class of imaging devices known as neuromorphic event-based sensors. These devices, which are modeled on the human retina, do not operate with frames, but…
Sparse tensors are the most used representation of sparse multidimensional data. Operations that decompose them, selecting their most important features while reducing their dimension, have become prevalent procedures in machine learning.…
Recent advancements have led to a proliferation of machine learning systems used to assist humans in a wide range of tasks. However, we are still far from accurate, reliable, and resource-efficient operations of these systems. For robot…
Recent Transformer-based visual tracking models have showcased superior performance. Nevertheless, prior works have been resource-intensive, requiring prolonged GPU training hours and incurring high GFLOPs during inference due to…
This study introduces a novel approach to enhance the spatial-temporal resolution of time-event pixels based on luminance changes captured by event cameras. These cameras present unique challenges due to their low resolution and the sparse,…
Applications in the Internet of Video Things (IoVT) domain have very tight constraints with respect to power and area. While neuromorphic vision sensors (NVS) may offer advantages over traditional imagers in this domain, the existing NVS…
Neuromorphic Systems-on-Chip (NSoCs) are becoming heterogeneous by integrating general-purpose processors (GPPs) and neural processing units (NPUs) on the same SoC. For embedded systems, an NSoC may need to execute user applications built…
Neuromorphic computing is an emerging computing paradigm that moves away from batched processing towards the online, event-driven, processing of streaming data. Neuromorphic chips, when coupled with spike-based sensors, can inherently adapt…
The integration of image and event streams offers a promising approach for achieving robust visual object tracking in complex environments. However, current fusion methods achieve high performance at the cost of significant computational…
This paper presents a novel hardware system for high-speed, event-sparse sampling-based electronic skin (e-skin)that integrates sensing and neuromorphic computing. The system is built around a 16x16 piezoresistive tactile array with front…
Low-cost FPGA platforms can broaden access to neuromorphic systems research, but current spiking neural network (SNN) workflows remain divided between hardware-first implementations, which are difficult to integrate with PyTorch-style…
This paper introduces an unsupervised compact architecture that can extract features and classify the contents of dynamic scenes from the temporal output of a neuromorphic asynchronous event-based camera. Event-based cameras are clock-less…
Spike train classification has recently become an important topic in the machine learning community, where each spike train is a binary event sequence with \emph{temporal-sparsity of signals of interest} and \emph{temporal-noise}…