A Low Power, Fully Event-Based Gesture Recognition System

no code implementations • CVPR 2017 • Arnon Amir, Brian Taba, David Berg, Timothy Melano, Jeffrey McKinstry, Carmelo Di Nolfo, Tapan Nayak, Alexander Andreopoulos, Guillaume Garreau, Marcela Mendoza, Jeff Kusnitz, Michael Debole, Steve Esser, Tobi Delbruck, Myron Flickner, Dharmendra Modha

We present the first gesture recognition system implemented end-to-end on event-based hardware, using a TrueNorth neurosynaptic processor to recognize hand gestures in real-time at low power from events streamed live by a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS).

Gesture Recognition

Structured Convolution Matrices for Energy-efficient Deep learning

no code implementations • 8 Jun 2016 • Rathinakumar Appuswamy, Tapan Nayak, John Arthur, Steven Esser, Paul Merolla, Jeffrey Mckinstry, Timothy Melano, Myron Flickner, Dharmendra Modha

We derive a relationship between network representation in energy-efficient neuromorphic architectures and block Toplitz convolutional matrices.

General Classification