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In the last few years, spiking neural networks have been demonstrated to perform on par with regular convolutional neural networks. Several works have proposed methods to convert a pre-trained CNN to a Spiking CNN without a significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Martino Sorbaro , Qian Liu , Massimo Bortone , Sadique Sheik

The proliferation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to increased energy consumption, raising concerns about their sustainability. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which are inspired by biological neural systems and operate using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lucas Deckers , Benjamin Vandersmissen , Ing Jyh Tsang , Werner Van Leekwijck , Steven Latré

The field of neuromorphic computing promises extremely low-power and low-latency sensing and processing. Challenges in transferring learning algorithms from traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) to spiking neural networks (SNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jesse Hagenaars , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido de Croon

Models of dense prediction based on traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) require a lot of energy, especially for image restoration tasks. Currently, neural networks based on the SNN (Spiking Neural Network) framework are beginning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xin Su , Chen Wu , Zhuoran Zheng

Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based inference on battery-powered devices can be made more energy-efficient by restricting the synaptic weights to be binary, hence eliminating the need to perform multiplications. An alternative, emerging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hyeryung Jang , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Spiking neural networks are emerging as a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks due to their spike-driven paradigm. However, recent research in the SNN domain has mainly focused on enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuerui Qiu , Malu Zhang , Jieyuan Zhang , Wenjie Wei , Honglin Cao , Junsheng Guo , Rui-Jie Zhu , Yimeng Shan , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as the low-power alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) because of their sparse, asynchronous, and binary event-driven processing. Due to their energy efficiency, SNNs have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Youngeun Kim , Joshua Chough , Priyadarshini Panda

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained huge attention as a potential energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent high-sparsity activation. However, most prior SNN methods use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN), a biologically inspired neural network infrastructure, has garnered significant attention recently. SNNs utilize binary spike activations for efficient information transmission, replacing multiplications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Guo , Yuhan Zhang , Zhou Jie , Xiaode Liu , Xin Tong , Yuanpei Chen , Weihang Peng , Zhe Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that operate in an event-driven manner and employ binary spike representation have recently emerged as promising candidates for energy-efficient computing. However, a cost bottleneck arises in obtaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunpeng Yao , Man Wu , Zheng Chen , Renyuan Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) that mimic information transmission in the brain can energy-efficiently process spatio-temporal information through discrete and sparse spikes, thereby receiving considerable attention. To improve accuracy and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Seongsik Park , Dongjin Lee , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired machine learning models that build on dynamic neuronal models processing binary and sparse spiking signals in an event-driven, online, fashion. SNNs can be implemented on neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Hyeryung Jang , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Multi-bit spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently become a heated research spot, pursuing energy-efficient and high-accurate AI. However, with more bits involved, the associated memory and computation demands escalate to the point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingting Yao , Qinghao Hu , Fei Zhou , Tielong Liu , Gang Li , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Intracortical brain-machine interfaces demand low-latency, energy-efficient solutions for neural decoding. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on neuromorphic hardware have demonstrated remarkable efficiency in neural decoding by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesca Rivelli , Martin Popov , Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos , Guangzhi Tang

Hyper spectral images (HSI) provide rich spectral and spatial information across a series of contiguous spectral bands. However, the accurate processing of the spectral and spatial correlation between the bands requires the use of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

Reducing energy consumption is a critical point for neural network models running on edge devices. In this regard, reducing the number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) running on edge hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Simon Narduzzi , Siavash A. Bigdeli , Shih-Chii Liu , L. Andrea Dunbar

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as a biologically plausible alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have demonstrated advantages in terms of energy efficiency, temporal processing, and biological plausibility. However, SNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xinyu Luo , Kecheng Chen , Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun , Chris Xing Tian , Arindam Basu , Haoliang Li

In recent years, newly developed methods to train spiking neural networks (SNNs) have rendered them as a plausible alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in terms of accuracy, while at the same time being much more energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nicolas Perez-Nieves , Dan F. M Goodman

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well known as the brain-inspired models with high computing efficiency, due to a key component that they utilize spikes as information units, close to the biological neural systems. Although spiking based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Qi Xu , Yaxin Li , Jiangrong Shen , Jian K Liu , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) leverage sparse spikes to represent information and process them in an asynchronous event-driven manner, offering an energy-efficient paradigm for the next generation of machine intelligence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wenjie Wei , Yu Liang , Ammar Belatreche , Yichen Xiao , Honglin Cao , Zhenbang Ren , Guoqing Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang