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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks. They have gained widespread attention in object detection due to their low energy consumption and biological interpretability. However, existing SNN-based object…

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Spiking Neural Network (SNN) inference has a clear potential for high energy efficiency as computation is triggered by events. However, the inherent sparsity of events poses challenges for conventional computing systems, driving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Simone Manoni , Paul Scheffler , Luca Zanatta , Andrea Acquaviva , Luca Benini , Andrea Bartolini

The event streams generated by dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are sparse and non-uniform in the spatial domain, while still dense and redundant in the temporal domain. Although spiking neural network (SNN), the event-driven neuromorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yuan Zhang , Jian Cao , Ling Zhang , Jue Chen , Wenyu Sun , Yuan Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising tool for event-based optical flow estimation tasks due to their ability to leverage spatio-temporal information and low-power capabilities. However, the performance of SNN models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hongze Sun , Jun Wang , Wuque Cai , Duo Chen , Qianqian Liao , Jiayi He , Yan Cui , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

In recent years, with the development of computing resources and LiDAR, point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted many researchers. For the sparsity of point clouds, although there is already a way to deal with sparse convolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yunzheng Su , Lei Jiang , Jie Cao

Traditional drone-view geo-localization (DVGL) methods based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved remarkable performance. However, ANNs rely on dense computation, which results in high power consumption. In contrast, spiking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhongwei Chen , Hai-Jun Rong , Zhao-Xu Yang , Guoqi Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have manifested remarkable advantages in power consumption and event-driven property during the inference process. To take full advantage of low power consumption and improve the efficiency of these models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Jian K. Liu , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are receiving increased attention because they mimic synaptic connections in biological systems and produce spike trains, which can be approximated by binary values for computational efficiency. Recently, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Nathan Lutes , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , K. Krishnamurthy

The intrinsic dynamics and event-driven nature of spiking neural networks (SNNs) make them excel in processing temporal information by naturally utilizing embedded time sequences as time steps. Recent studies adopting this approach have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaqi Wang , Liutao Yu , Liwei Huang , Chenlin Zhou , Han Zhang , Zhenxi Song , Min Zhang , Zhengyu Ma , Zhiguo Zhang

Brain-inspired spiking neuron networks (SNNs) have attracted widespread research interest due to their low power features, high biological plausibility, and strong spatiotemporal information processing capability. Although adopting a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising biologically plausible models of computation which utilize a spiking binary activation function similar to that of biological neurons. SNNs are well positioned to process spatiotemporal data, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Boxun Xu , Richard Boone , Peng Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) operate with asynchronous discrete events (or spikes) which can potentially lead to higher energy-efficiency in neuromorphic hardware implementations. Many works have shown that an SNN for inference can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Nitin Rathi , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Event cameras generate asynchronous and sparse event streams capturing changes in light intensity. They offer significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras, such as a higher dynamic range and an extremely faster data rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Tian , Juan Andrade-Cetto

Event-driven sensors such as LiDAR and dynamic vision sensor (DVS) have found increased attention in high-resolution and high-speed applications. A lot of work has been conducted to enhance recognition accuracy. However, the essential topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Shibo Zhou , Wei Wang , Xiaohua Li , Zhanpeng Jin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mengye Ren , Andrei Pokrovsky , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Achieving optimal semantic segmentation with frame-based vision sensors poses significant challenges for real-time systems like UAVs and self-driving cars, which require rapid and precise processing. Traditional frame-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 D. Hareb , J. Martinet , B. Miramond

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are inspired by the human brain, have recently gained popularity due to their relatively simple and low-power hardware for transmitting binary spikes and highly sparse activation maps. However, because…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Hong-Han Lien , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), recognized as an energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), have advanced rapidly through the scaling of models and datasets. However, such scaling incurs considerable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chenxiang Ma , Xinyi Chen , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Deep learning-based point cloud processing plays an important role in various vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). The submanifold sparse convolutional network (SSCN) has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Zilun Wang , Wendong Mao , Peixiang Yang , Zhongfeng Wang , Jun Lin