English
Related papers

Related papers: SpikeTrack: A Spike-driven Framework for Efficient…

200 papers

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise low-power event-driven computation for temporally rich tasks, but commonly used neuron models often trade off gradient-based trainability, dynamical richness, and high activity sparsity. These…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alex Fulleda-Garcia , Saray Soldado-Magraner , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) equipped with latency coding and spike-timing dependent plasticity rules offer an alternative to solve the data and energy bottlenecks of standard computer vision approaches: they can learn visual features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pierre Falez , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Philippe Devienne , Pierre Boulet

Real-time accurate detection of three-dimensional (3D) objects is a fundamental necessity for self-driving vehicles. Most existing computer vision approaches are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shibo Zhou , Ying Chen , Xiaohua Li , Arindam Sanyal

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered as a potential candidate for the next generation of artificial intelligence with appealing characteristics such as sparse computation and inherent temporal dynamics. By adopting architectures of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Kaiwei Che , Zhaokun Zhou , Li Yuan , Jianguo Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Luziwei Leng

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) achieve an impressive performance due to the remarkable representation ability in learning the graph information. However, GCNs, when implemented on a deep network, require expensive computation power,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Zulun Zhu , Jiaying Peng , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Qi Yu , Siqiang Luo

Neuromorphic Computing (NC) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in particular are often viewed as the next generation of Neural Networks (NNs). NC is a novel bio-inspired paradigm for energy efficient neural computation, often relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Andreas Ziegler , Karl Vetter , Thomas Gossard , Jonas Tebbe , Sebastian Otte , Andreas Zell

Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the current mainstream of neuromorphic computing. By contrast, no…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Man Yao , Jiakui Hu , Tianxiang Hu , Yifan Xu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

The integration of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is gradually attracting attention due to the low power consumption and high efficiency in processing the non-Euclidean data represented by graphs. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nan Yin , Mengzhu Wang , Zhenghan Chen , Giulia De Masi , Bin Gu , Huan Xiong

Object tracking has achieved significant progress over the past few years. However, state-of-the-art trackers become increasingly heavy and expensive, which limits their deployments in resource-constrained applications. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Bin Yan , Houwen Peng , Kan Wu , Dong Wang , Jianlong Fu , Huchuan Lu

For multimodal skeleton-based action recognition, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are effective models. Still, their reliance on floating-point computations leads to high energy consumption, limiting their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Naichuan Zheng , Yuchen Du , Hailun Xia , Zeyu Liang

Spike cameras, leveraging spike-based integration sampling and high temporal resolution, offer distinct advantages over standard cameras. However, existing approaches reliant on spike cameras often assume optimal illumination, a condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Lin Zhu , Kangmin Jia , Yifan Zhao , Yunshan Qi , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Time-series forecasting in domains like traffic management and industrial monitoring often requires real-time, energy-efficient processing on edge devices with limited resources. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer event-driven computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kaiwen Tang , Jiaqi Zheng , Yuze Jin , Yupeng Qiu , Guangda Sun , Zhanglu Yan , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained attention for their energy-efficient machine learning capabilities, utilizing bio-inspired activation functions and sparse binary spike-data representations. While recent SNN algorithmic advances…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Ruokai Yin , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering biological plausibility and energy efficiency. Despite these merits, SNNs are frequently hampered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Wenke Huang , Qiang Zhang , Tingting Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Liangpei Zhang

RGB-Event tracking has become a promising trend in visual object tracking to leverage the complementary strengths of both RGB images and dynamic spike events for improved performance. However, existing artificial neural networks (ANNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Siying Liu , Zikai Wang , Hanle Zheng , Yifan Hu , Xilin Wang , Qingkai Yang , Jibin Wu , Hao Guo , Lei Deng

Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated substantial potential in computer vision tasks. In this paper, we present an Efficient Spiking Deraining Network, called ESDNet. Our work is motivated by the observation that rain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Tianyu Song , Guiyue Jin , Pengpeng Li , Kui Jiang , Xiang Chen , Jiyu Jin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient way to extract 3D spatio-temporal features. Point clouds are sparse 3D spatial data, which suggests that SNNs should be well-suited for processing them. However, when applying SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuerui Qiu , Man Yao , Jieyuan Zhang , Yuhong Chou , Ning Qiao , Shibo Zhou , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel in computer vision tasks, especially, few-shot learning (FSL), which is increasingly important for generalizing from limited examples. However, DNNs are computationally expensive with scalability issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Qi Xu , Junyang Zhu , Dongdong Zhou , Hao Chen , Yang Liu , Jiangrong Shen , Qiang Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), particularly the single-spike variant in which neurons spike at most once, are considerably more energy efficient than standard artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, single-spike SSNs are difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Luke Taylor , Andrew King , Nicol Harper