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Neuromorphic vision processor is an electronic implementation of vision algorithm processor on semiconductor. To image the world, a low-power CMOS image sensor array is required in the vision processor. The image sensor array is typically…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Yilei F. Li , Li Du

Edge-AI computing requires high energy efficiency, low power consumption, and relatively high flexibility and compact area, challenging the AI-chip design. This work presents a 0.96 pJ/SOP heterogeneous neuromorphic system-on-chip (SoC)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 P. J. Zhou , Q. Yu , M. Chen , Y. C. Wang , L. W. Meng , Y. Zuo , N. Ning , Y. Liu , S. G. Hu , G. C. Qiao

Biologically plausible and energy-efficient frameworks such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have not been sufficiently explored in low-level vision tasks. Taking image deraining as an example, this study addresses the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuang Chen , Tomas Krajnik , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Due to the high activation sparsity and use of accumulates (AC) instead of expensive multiply-and-accumulates (MAC), neuromorphic spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising low-power alternative to traditional DNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Souvik Kundu , Joe Mathai , Zihan Yin , Ajey P. Jacob , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

ANN-to-SNN conversion offers a practical, training-free route to spiking large language models. However, current pipelines primarily focus on spike-driven realizations for Transformer linear-algebra operations, while providing limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xinzhe Yuan , Xiang Peng , Bin Gu , Huan Xiong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are known to be very effective for neuromorphic processor implementations, achieving orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency and computational latency over traditional deep learning approaches.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Jean Rouat , Sean U. N. Wood

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are promising for motor rehabilitation and mobility augmentation. High-accuracy and low-power algorithms are required to achieve implantable BMI systems. In this paper, we propose a novel spiking neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Jiawei Liao , Lars Widmer , Xiaying Wang , Alfio Di Mauro , Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski , Cynthia A. Chestek , Luca Benini , Taekwang Jang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency in event driven neuromorphic hardware. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-05 Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel

Neuromorphic computing implementing spiking neural networks (SNN) is a promising technology for reducing the footprint of optical transceivers, as required by the fast-paced growth of data center traffic. In this work, an SNN nonlinear…

Low bit-width Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) enable deployment of complex machine learning models on constrained devices such as microcontrollers (MCUs) by reducing their memory footprint. Fine-grained asymmetric quantization (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Gianmarco Ottavi , Angelo Garofalo , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology enabling low-latency and energy-efficient signal processing. A key algorithmic tool in neuromorphic computing is spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are biologically inspired neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

The biological neurons use precise spike times, in addition to the spike firing rate, to communicate with each other. The time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding is inspired by such biological observation. However, there is a lack of effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Qu Yang , Malu Zhang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Haizhou Li

This paper develops an end-to-end fuzzy encoder-decoder architecture for enhancing vision-based multi-modal deep spiking Q-networks in autonomous driving. The method addresses two core limitations of spiking reinforcement learning:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aref Ghoreishee , Abhishek Mishra , Lifeng Zhou , John Walsh , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired networks that mimic how neurons in the brain communicate through discrete spikes, which have great potential in various tasks due to their energy efficiency and temporal processing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Changze Lv , Yansen Wang , Dongqi Han , Yifei Shen , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Dongsheng Li

This paper presents microwatt end-to-end neural signal processing hardware for deployment-stage real-time upper-limb movement intent decoding. This module features intercellular spike detection, sorting, and decoding operations for a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Zhewei Jiang , Jiangyi Li , Pavan K. Chundi , Sung Justin Kim , Minhao Yang , Joonseong Kang , Seungchul Jung , Sang Joon Kim , Mingoo Seok

This work presents a dynamic power management architecture for neuromorphic many core systems such as SpiNNaker. A fast dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique is presented which allows the processing elements (PE) to change…

In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been used in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their low power consumption and event-driven features. However, spiking reinforcement learning (SRL), which suffers from fixed coding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lang Qin , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang

Neuromorphic computing is poised to further the success of software-based neural networks by utilizing improved customized hardware. However, the translation of neuromorphic algorithms to hardware specifications is a problem that has been…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Andres E. Lombo , Jesus E. Lares , Matteo Castellani , Chi-Ning Chou , Nancy Lynch , Karl K. Berggren