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Edge AI applications increasingly require models that can learn and adapt on-device with minimal energy budget. Traditional deep learning models, while powerful, are often overparameterized, energy-hungry, and dependent on cloud…

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Transformers and vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as dominant architectures in computer vision and multimodal AI, offering state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as image classification, object detection, visual question…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

Challenges in the field of retinal prostheses motivate the development of retinal models to accurately simulate Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGCs) responses. The goal of retinal prostheses is to enable blind individuals to solve complex,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Nikolas Papadopoulos , Nikos Melanitis , Antonio Lozano , Cristina Soto-Sanchez , Eduardo Fernandez , Konstantina S Nikita

Scientific experiments rely on some type of measurements that provides the required data to extract aimed information or conclusions. Data production and analysis are therefore essential components at the heart of any scientific…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-01 Wassim Mansour , Rattana Biv , Cyril Ponchut , Raphael Ponsard , Nicolas Janvier , Pablo Fajardo

Computational hardware designed to mimic biological neural networks holds the promise to resolve the drastically growing global energy demand of artificial intelligence. A wide variety of hardware concepts have been proposed, and among…

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by biological neural systems, holds immense promise for ultra-low-power and real-time inference applications. However, limited access to flexible, open-source platforms continues to hinder widespread…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Pracheta Harlikar , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Prasanna Date

Retinal template matching and registration is an important challenge in teleophthalmology with low-cost imaging devices. However, the images from such devices generally have a small field of view (FOV) and image quality degradations, making…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-30 Chen Gong , N. Benjamin Erichson , John P. Kelly , Laura Trutoiu , Brian T. Schowengerdt , Steven L. Brunton , Eric J. Seibel

Neuromorphic image sensors draw inspiration from the biological retina to implement visual computations in electronic hardware. Gain control in phototransduction and temporal differentiation at the first retinal synapse inspired the first…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Zihan Yin , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Lamine Ousmane Camara , Mark Camarena , Maryam Parsa , Ajey Jacob , Gregory Schwartz , Akhilesh Jaiswal

This paper introduces a neuromorphic methodology for eye tracking, harnessing pure event data captured by a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) camera. The framework integrates a directly trained Spiking Neuron Network (SNN) regression model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Pietro Bonazzi , Sizhen Bian , Giovanni Lippolis , Yawei Li , Sadique Sheik , Michele Magno

Emergent learning transforms a disordered optical medium into a photonic device capable of storage, recognition, and classification of arbitrary memory patterns. First, we show that the intensity at the output of a multiply scattering…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are third-generation Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) which are close to the biological neural system. In recent years SNN has become popular in the area of robotics and embedded applications, therefore, it has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shikhar Gupta , Arpan Vyas , Gaurav Trivedi

Portrait Fidelity Generation is a prominent research area in generative models.Current methods face challenges in generating full-body images with low-resolution faces, especially in multi-ID photo phenomenon.To tackle these issues, we…

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Implantable retinal prostheses offer a promising solution to restore partial vision by circumventing damaged photoreceptor cells in the retina and directly stimulating the remaining functional retinal cells. However, the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuli Wu , Julian Wittmann , Peter Walter , Johannes Stegmaier

With a kind of magnetism, the human retina draws the eye of neuroscientist and physicist alike. It is attractive as a self-organizing system, which forms as a part of the central nervous system via biochemical and mechanical cues. The…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Katja A. Salbaum , Elijah R. Shelton , Friedhelm Serwane

This study presents advanced neural network architectures including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for enhanced ECG signal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kayode Inadagbo , Baran Arig , Nisanur Alici , Murat Isik

Neuromorphic systems, inspired by the complexity and functionality of the human brain, have gained interest in academic and industrial attention due to their unparalleled potential across a wide range of applications. While their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Murat Isik , Hiruna Vishwamith , Yusuf Sur , Kayode Inadagbo , I. Can Dikmen

This paper reviews memory technologies used in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for neuromorphic computing, a brain-inspired approach transforming artificial intelligence with improved efficiency and performance. It focuses on the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dexter Le , Baran Arig , Murat Isik , I. Can Dikmen , Teoman Karadag

Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Yaman Umuroglu , Nicholas J. Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip Leong , Magnus Jahre , Kees Vissers

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

This study proposes a retinal prosthetic simulation framework driven by visual fixations, inspired by the saccade mechanism, and assesses performance improvements through end-to-end optimization in a classification task. Salient patches are…

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