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Low-cost FPGA platforms can broaden access to neuromorphic systems research, but current spiking neural network (SNN) workflows remain divided between hardware-first implementations, which are difficult to integrate with PyTorch-style…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jiwoon Lee , Souvik Chakraborty , Syed Bahauddin Alam , Cheolsoo Park

There is a growing necessity for edge training to adapt to dynamically changing environment. Neuromorphic computing represents a significant pathway for high-efficiency intelligent computation in energy-constrained edges, but existing…

Event-based Action Recognition (EAR) possesses the advantages of high-temporal resolution capturing and privacy preservation compared with traditional action recognition. Current leading EAR solutions typically follow two regimes: project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Meiqi Cao , Xiangbo Shu , Jiachao Zhang , Rui Yan , Zechao Li , Jinhui Tang

Real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) acoustic detection at the edge demands low-latency inference under strict power and hardware limits. This paper presents SHIELD8-UAV, a sequential 8-bit hardware implementation of a precision-aware 1D…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Susmita Ghanta , Karan Nathwani , Rohit Chaurasiya

Objective: We aimed to fuse the outputs of different electrocardiogram-derived respiration (EDR) algorithms to create one EDR signal that is of higher quality. Methods: We viewed each EDR algorithm as a software sensor that recorded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Jacob McErlean , John Malik , Yu-Ting Lin , Ronen Talmon , Hau-Tieng Wu

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

Vision-based object tracking is an essential precursor to performing autonomous aerial navigation in order to avoid obstacles. Biologically inspired neuromorphic event cameras are emerging as a powerful alternative to frame-based cameras,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Sourav Sanyal , Rohan Kumar Manna , Kaushik Roy

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

Neuromorphic vision made significant progress in recent years, thanks to the natural match between spiking neural networks and event data in terms of biological inspiration, energy savings, latency and memory use for dynamic visual data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Amélie Gruel , Pierre Lewden , Adrien F. Vincent , Sylvain Saïghi

Achieving optimal semantic segmentation with frame-based vision sensors poses significant challenges for real-time systems like UAVs and self-driving cars, which require rapid and precise processing. Traditional frame-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 D. Hareb , J. Martinet , B. Miramond

Steered-Mixtures-of-Experts (SMoE) models provide sparse, edge-aware representations, applicable to many use-cases in image processing. This includes denoising, super-resolution and compression of 2D- and higher dimensional pixel data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Elvira Fleig , Jonas Geistert , Erik Bochinski , Rolf Jongebloed , Thomas Sikora

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

Neuromorphic computing using biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is a promising solution to meet Energy-Throughput (ET) efficiency needed for edge computing devices. Neuromorphic hardware architectures that emulate SNNs in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mayank Senapati , Manil Dev Gomony , Sherif Eissa , Charlotte Frenkel , Henk Corporaal

In a multi-speaker "cocktail party" scenario, a listener can selectively attend to a speaker of interest. Studies into the human auditory attention network demonstrate cortical entrainment to speech envelopes resulting in highly correlated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Richard Gall , Deniz Kocanaogullari , Murat Akcakaya , Deniz Erdogmus , Rajkumar Kubendran

Event-based vision sensors achieve up to three orders of magnitude better speed vs. power consumption trade off in high-speed control of UAVs compared to conventional image sensors. Event-based cameras produce a sparse stream of events that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Antonio Vitale , Alpha Renner , Celine Nauer , Davide Scaramuzza , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Modern GPU workloads, especially large language model (LLM) inference, suffer from kernel launch overheads and coarse synchronization that limit inter-kernel parallelism. Recent megakernel techniques fuse multiple operators into a single…

Deep learning inference that needs to largely take place on the 'edge' is a highly computational and memory intensive workload, making it intractable for low-power, embedded platforms such as mobile nodes and remote security applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Andres Ussa , Chockalingam Senthil Rajen , Deepak Singla , Jyotibdha Acharya , Gideon Fu Chuanrong , Arindam Basu , Bharath Ramesh

Neuromorphic hardware equipped with learning capabilities can adapt to new, real-time data. While models of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can now be trained using gradient descent to reach an accuracy comparable to equivalent conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Kenneth Stewart , Andreea Danielescu , Timothy Shea , Emre Neftci

To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throughput, more advanced equalizers are crucial, to compensate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jonas Ney , Christoph Füllner , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Sebastian Randel , Norbert Wehn

Sparse and asynchronous sensing and processing in natural organisms lead to ultra low-latency and energy-efficient perception. Event cameras, known as neuromorphic vision sensors, are designed to mimic these characteristics. However, fully…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Junjie Jiang , Delei Kong , Chenming Hu , Zheng Fang