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Although transformer is preferred in natural language processing, some studies has only been applied to the field of medical imaging in recent years. For its long-term dependency, the transformer is expected to contribute to unconventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Jing Xu

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

Transformer-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) introduce a novel event-driven self-attention paradigm that combines the high performance of Transformers with the energy efficiency of SNNs. However, the larger model size and increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Honglin Cao , Zijian Zhou , Wenjie Wei , Ammar Belatreche , Yu Liang , Dehao Zhang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as one of the algorithmic models in neuromorphic computing, have gained a great deal of research attention owing to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chengting Yu , Zheming Gu , Da Li , Gaoang Wang , Aili Wang , Erping Li

Skeleton-based action recognition receives the attention of many researchers as it is robust to viewpoint and illumination changes, and its processing is much more efficient than the processing of video frames. With the emergence of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ozge Oztimur Karadag

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered attention over recent years due to their increased energy efficiency and advantages in terms of operational complexity compared to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Two important…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Daniel Windhager , Lothar Ratschbacher , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

As the size of large language models continue to scale, so does the computational resources required to run it. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an energy-efficient approach to deep learning that leverage sparse and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Rui-Jie Zhu , Qihang Zhao , Guoqi Li , Jason K. Eshraghian

Neuromorphic vision systems based on spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer ultra-low-power perception for event-based and frame-based cameras, yet catastrophic forgetting remains a critical barrier to deployment in continually evolving…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anika Tabassum Meem , Muntasir Hossain Nadid , Md Zesun Ahmed Mia

This work proposes an end-to-end multi-modal reinforcement learning framework for high-level decision-making in autonomous vehicles. The framework integrates heterogeneous sensory input, including camera images, LiDAR point clouds, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Aref Ghoreishee , Abhishek Mishra , Lifeng Zhou , John Walsh , Nagarajan Kandasamy

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

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

The recently developed vision transformer (ViT) has achieved promising results on image classification compared to convolutional neural networks. Inspired by this, in this paper, we study how to learn multi-scale feature representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Rameswar Panda

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. However, most existing works yield models that require many time steps and do not leverage the inherent temporal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Gourav Datta , Haoqin Deng , Robert Aviles , Peter A. Beerel

With the rapid growth of dynamic vision sensor (DVS) data, constructing a low-energy, efficient data retrieval system has become an urgent task. Hash learning is one of the most important retrieval technologies which can keep the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zihao Mei , Jianhao Li , Bolin Zhang , Chong Wang , Lijun Guo , Guoqi Li , Jiangbo Qian

Humans interpret and perceive the world by integrating sensory information from multiple modalities, such as vision and hearing. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as brain-inspired computational models, exhibit unique advantages in emulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiang He , Dongcheng Zhao , Yiting Dong , Guobin Shen , Xin Yang , Yi Zeng

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance over various computer vision tasks. However, modeling global correlations with multi-head self-attention (MSA) layers leads to two widely recognized issues: the massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Liu , Zizheng Pan , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) serve as one type of efficient model to process spatio-temporal patterns in time series, such as the Address-Event Representation data collected from Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). Although convolutional SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Qi Xu , Yuyuan Gao , Jiangrong Shen , Yaxin Li , Xuming Ran , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

This survey paper presents a comprehensive examination of Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture search (SNNaS) from a unique hardware/software co-design perspective. SNNs, inspired by biological neurons, have emerged as a promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija

Spiking Transformers have gained considerable attention because they achieve both the energy efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and the high capacity of Transformers. However, the existing Spiking Transformer architectures,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ziqing Wang , Qidong Zhao , Jinku Cui , Xu Liu , Dongkuan Xu