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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) as Machine Learning (ML) models have recently received a lot of attention as a potentially more energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks. The non-differentiability and sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Maximilian Gollwitzer , Felix Dietrich

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

The rise of mobility, IoT and wearables has shifted processing to the edge of the sensors, driven by the need to reduce latency, communication costs and overall energy consumption. While deep learning models have achieved remarkable results…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Caterina Caccavella , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Marco Cannici , Lyes Khacef

Traffic object detection under variable illumination is challenging due to the information loss caused by the limited dynamic range of conventional frame-based cameras. To address this issue, we introduce bio-inspired event cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhanwen Liu , Nan Yang , Yang Wang , Yuke Li , Xiangmo Zhao , Fei-Yue Wang

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

Interacting with the environment, such as object detection and tracking, is a crucial ability of mobile robots. Besides high accuracy, efficiency in terms of processing effort and energy consumption are also desirable. To satisfy both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xuesong Li , Jose Guivant

In frame-based vision, object detection faces substantial performance degradation under challenging conditions due to the limited sensing capability of conventional cameras. Event cameras output sparse and asynchronous events, providing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hu Cao , Zehua Zhang , Yan Xia , Xinyi Li , Jiahao Xia , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll

Existing tracking algorithms typically rely on low-frame-rate RGB cameras coupled with computationally intensive deep neural network architectures to achieve effective tracking. However, such frame-based methods inherently face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Liye Jin , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Lan Chen , Yonghong Tian , Bin Luo

Event-based vision sensors provide significant advantages for high-speed perception, including microsecond temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. When combined with Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Maxime Vaillant , Axel Carlier , Lai Xing Ng , Christophe Hurter , Benoit R. Cottereau

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are the so-called third generation of neural networks which attempt to more closely match the functioning of the biological brain. They inherently encode temporal data, allowing for training with less energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chethan M. Parameshwara , Simin Li , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Matthew S. Evanusa , Yiannis Aloimonos

Neuromorphic vision sensors (event cameras) simulate biological visual perception systems and have the advantages of high temporal resolution, less data redundancy, low power consumption, and large dynamic range. Since both events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Haibo Shen , Juyu Xiao , Yihao Luo , Xiang Cao , Liangqi Zhang , Tianjiang Wang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibit superior energy efficiency but suffer from limited performance. In this paper, we consider SNNs as ensembles of temporal subnetworks that share architectures and weights, and highlight a crucial issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Pei He , Hanpu Deng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Piotr Dudek , Jayawan Wijekoon

Tracking any point (TAP) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, requiring high precision and long-term motion reasoning. Recent attempts to combine RGB frames and event streams have shown promise, yet they typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxiong Liu , Zhen Tan , Jinpu Zhang , Yi Zhou , Hui Shen , Xieyuanli Chen , Dewen Hu

Existing RGB-Event visual object tracking approaches primarily rely on conventional feature-level fusion, failing to fully exploit the unique advantages of event cameras. In particular, the high dynamic range and motion-sensitive nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Haonan Zhao , Jiarui Xu , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Xin Zhao , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), known for their low-power, event-driven computation and intrinsic temporal dynamics, are emerging as promising solutions for processing dynamic, asynchronous signals from event-based sensors. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Rui Zhang , Luziwei Leng , Kaiwei Che , Hu Zhang , Jie Cheng , Qinghai Guo , Jiangxing Liao , Ran Cheng

Spiking neural network (SNN) is a biologically-plausible model and exhibits advantages of high computational capability and low power consumption. While the training of deep SNN is still an open problem, which limits the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shuiying Xiang , Tao Zhang , Shuqing Jiang , Yanan Han , Yahui Zhang , Chenyang Du , Xingxing Guo , Licun Yu , Yuechun Shi , Yue Hao

In the era of AI at the edge, self-driving cars, and climate change, the need for energy-efficient, small, embedded AI is growing. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising approach to address this challenge, with their event-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Lennard Bodden , Franziska Schwaiger , Duc Bach Ha , Lars Kreuzberg , Sven Behnke

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Geoffroy Keime , Nicolas Cuperlier , Benoit R. Cottereau

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision that requires continuously tracking multiple targets while maintaining consistent identities across frames. However, most existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanchao Wang , Dawei Zhang , Chengzhuan Yang , Wei Liu , Minglu Li , Hua Wang , Zhonglong Zheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang