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- short-paperSeptember 2022
Neuro-symbolic computing with spiking neural networks
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 30, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546824Knowledge graphs are an expressive and widely used data structure due to their ability to integrate data from different domains in a sensible and machine-readable way. Thus, they can be used to model a variety of systems such as molecules and social ...
- short-paperSeptember 2022
Semi-Supervised Graph Structure Learning on Neuromorphic Computers
- Guojing Cong,
- Seung-Hwan Lim,
- Shruti Kulkarni,
- Prasanna Date,
- Thomas Potok,
- Shay Snyder,
- Maryam Parsa,
- Catherine Schuman
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 28, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546821Graph convolutional networks have risen in popularity in recent years to tackle problems that are naturally represented as graphs. However, real-world graphs are often sparse, which means that implementing them on traditional accelerators such as ...
- short-paperSeptember 2022
Towards a Laser Warning System in the Visible Spectrum using a Neuromorphic Camera
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 26, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546819We present an assessment of the use of a neuromorphic camera in a Laser Warning Systems (LWS). The tested configuration is composed of a fisheye lens mounted onto a neuromorphic camera, yielding hemispherical coverage. We show that the tested ...
- short-paperSeptember 2022
Resonate-and-Fire Neurons for Radar Interference Detection
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 23, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546816Radar devices sense the environment and detect range, velocity, and angel of arrival by applying multiple Fourier transformations. However, these calculations are expensive and assume that the data are in memory. Frequency-Modulated-Continuous-Wave ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Think Fast: Time Control in Varying Paradigms of Spiking Neural Networks
- Steven C. Nesbit,
- Andrew O'Brien,
- Jocelyn Rego,
- Gavin Parpart,
- Carlos Gonzalez,
- Garrett T. Kenyon,
- Edward Kim,
- Terrence C. Stewart,
- Yijing Watkins
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 21, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546814The state-of-the-art in machine learning has been achieved primarily by deep learning artificial neural networks. These networks are powerful but biologically implausible and energy intensive. In parallel, a new paradigm of neural network is being ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
A general approach to fast online training of modern datasets on real neuromorphic systems without backpropagation
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 18, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546810We present parameter-multiplexed gradient descent (PMGD), a perturbative gradient descent framework designed to easily train emergent neuromorphic hardware platforms. We show its applicability to both analog and digital systems. We demonstrate how to ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Low-Shot Learning and Pattern Separation using Cellular Automata Integrated CNNs
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 17, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546807Traditionally, deep convolutional neural networks are computationally expensive to train and require large amounts of data samples. In this article, we explore the use of pre-trained cellular automata as a substitute for convolutional layers. We ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Neuromorphic Computing is Turing-Complete
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 16, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546806Neuromorphic computing is a non-von Neumann computing paradigm that performs computation by emulating the human brain. Neuromorphic systems are extremely energy-efficient and known to consume thousands of times less power than CPUs and GPUs. They have ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
RetinoSim: an Event-based Data Synthesis Tool for Neuromorphic Vision Architecture Exploration
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 15, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546805Neuromorphic vision sensors (NVS), also known as silicon retina, capture aspects of the biological functionality of the mammalian retina by transducing incident photocurrent into an asynchronous stream of spikes that denote positive and negative ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Efficient Spike Encoding Algorithms for Neuromorphic Speech Recognition
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 13, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546803Spiking Neural Networks 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. Comparable ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
A Virtual Fence for Drones: Efficiently Detecting Propeller Blades with a DVXplorer Event Camera
- Terrence Stewart,
- Marc-Antoine Drouin,
- Michel Picard,
- Frank Billy Djupkep Dizeu,
- Anthony Orth,
- Guillaume Gagné
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 10, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546800In previous work, we prototyped a portable drone detection system using a DAVIS 346 event camera and a Raspberry Pi 4, running in 5.14 W. Here, we expand on this work by switching to the higher-resolution DVXplorer and by including a small neural ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Reducing the Spike Rate in Deep Spiking Neural Networks
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 8, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546798One objective of Spiking Neural Networks is a very efficient computation in terms of energy consumption. To achieve this target, a small spike rate is of course very beneficial since the event-driven nature of such a computation. However, as the network ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Spatiotemporal Pattern Recognition in Single Mixed-Signal VLSI Neurons with Heterogeneous Dynamic Synapses
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 4, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546794Mixed-signal neuromorphic processors with brain-like organization and device physics offer an ultra-low-power alternative to the unsustainable developments of conventional deep learning and computing. However, realizing the potential of such ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Evaluating Encoding and Decoding Approaches for Spiking Neuromorphic Systems
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 2, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546792A challenge associated with effectively using spiking neuromorphic systems is how to communicate data to and from the neuromorphic implementation. Unless a neuromorphic or event-based sensing system is used, data has to be converted into spikes to be ...
- research-articleSeptember 2022
Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphic approach
ICONS '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022Article No.: 1, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3546790.3546791Intelligent robots need to recognize objects in their environment. This task is conceptually different from the typical image classification task in computer vision. Robots need to recognize particular object instances, not classes of objects, which ...