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Recently recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have demonstrated the ability to improve scene labeling through capturing long-range dependencies among image units. In this paper, we propose dense RNNs for scene labeling by exploring various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Heng Fan , Haibin Ling

Inspired by biological processes, neuromorphic computing leverages spiking neural networks (SNNs) to perform inference tasks, offering significant efficiency gains for workloads involving sequential data. Recent advances in hardware and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Dengyu Wu , Jiechen Chen , Bipin Rajendran , H. Vincent Poor , Osvaldo Simeone

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use spatio-temporal spike patterns to represent and transmit information, which is not only biologically realistic but also suitable for ultra-low-power event-driven neuromorphic implementation. Motivated by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Malu Zhang , Jiadong Wang , Burin Amornpaisannon , Zhixuan Zhang , VPK Miriyala , Ammar Belatreche , Hong Qu , Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Trevor E. Carlson , Haizhou Li

We propose distributed deep neural networks (DDNNs) over distributed computing hierarchies, consisting of the cloud, the edge (fog) and end devices. While being able to accommodate inference of a deep neural network (DNN) in the cloud, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer significant potential for enabling energy-efficient intelligence at the edge. However, performing full SNN inference at the edge can be challenging due to the latency and energy constraints arising from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maurf Hassan , Steven Davy , Muhammad Zawish , Owais Bin Zuber , Nouman Ashraf

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly energy-efficient due to event-driven, sparse computation, but their training is challenged by spike non-differentiability and trade-offs among performance, efficiency, and biological plausibility.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zihan Huang , Zijie Xu , Yihan Huang , Shanshan Jia , Tong Bu , Yiting Dong , Wenxuan Liu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

The convergence of artificial intelligence and edge computing has spurred growing interest in enabling intelligent services directly on resource-constrained devices. While traditional deep learning models require significant computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Shuiguang Deng , Di Yu , Changze Lv , Xin Du , Linshan Jiang , Xiaofan Zhao , Wentao Tong , Xiaoqing Zheng , Weijia Fang , Peng Zhao , Gang Pan , Schahram Dustdar , Albert Y. Zomaya

With the expansion of AI-powered virtual assistants, there is a need for low-power keyword spotting systems providing a "wake-up" mechanism for subsequent computationally expensive speech recognition. One promising approach is the use of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mattias Nilsson , Ton Juny Pina , Lyes Khacef , Foteini Liwicki , Elisabetta Chicca , Fredrik Sandin

Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Man Yao , Guangshe Zhao , Hengyu Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Sequence prediction and classification are ubiquitous and challenging problems in machine learning that can require identifying complex dependencies between temporally distant inputs. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have the ability, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Jan Koutník , Klaus Greff , Faustino Gomez , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Dendrite-inspired neurons have been widely used in tasks such as image classification due to low computational complexity and fast inference speed. Temporal data prediction, as a key machine learning task, plays a key role in real-time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Dongjian Yang , Xiaoyuan Li , Chuanmei Xi , Ye Sun , Gang Liu

Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

Event cameras, with their high dynamic range and temporal resolution, are ideally suited for object detection, especially under scenarios with motion blur and challenging lighting conditions. However, while most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziming Wang , Ziling Wang , Huaning Li , Lang Qin , Runhao Jiang , De Ma , Huajin Tang

Speech enhancement (SE) improves communication in noisy environments, affecting areas such as automatic speech recognition, hearing aids, and telecommunications. With these domains typically being power-constrained and event-based while…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tao Sun , Sander Bohté

As the technology industry is moving towards implementing tasks such as natural language processing, path planning, image classification, and more on smaller edge computing devices, the demand for more efficient implementations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Peyton Chandarana , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , James Seekings , Ramtin Zand

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a biologically inspired paradigm offering an energy-efficient alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) for Computer Vision (CV) applications. This paper presents a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Craig Iaboni , Pramod Abichandani

Spiking neural networks have gained significant attention due to their brain-like information processing capabilities. The use of surrogate gradients has made it possible to train spiking neural networks with backpropagation, leading to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Dongcheng Zhao , Guobin Shen , Yiting Dong , Yang Li , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered significant attention for their low power consumption and high biological interpretability. Their rich spatio-temporal information processing capability and event-driven nature make them ideally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Xian Zhong , Shengwang Hu , Wenxuan Liu , Wenxin Huang , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Neuromorphic hardware implementations of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient, low-latency AI through sparse, event-driven computation. Yet, training SNNs under fine temporal discretization remains a major challenge,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roel Koopman , Sebastian Otte , Sander Bohté

Speech enhancement is critical for improving speech intelligibility and quality in various audio devices. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have significantly improved speech enhancement performance, but they often come with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Chenxiang Ma , Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan