Search Results for author: Saeed Afshar

Found 14 papers, 3 papers with code

Efficient Implementation of a Multi-Layer Gradient-Free Online-Trainable Spiking Neural Network on FPGA

no code implementations31 May 2023 Ali Mehrabi, Yeshwanth Bethi, André van Schaik, Andrew Wabnitz, Saeed Afshar

This paper presents an efficient hardware implementation of the recently proposed Optimized Deep Event-driven Spiking Neural Network Architecture (ODESA).

Self-Learning

Event-driven Spectrotemporal Feature Extraction and Classification using a Silicon Cochlea Model

no code implementations14 Dec 2022 Ying Xu, Samalika Perera, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar, André van Schaik

This paper presents a reconfigurable digital implementation of an event-based binaural cochlear system on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

An optimised deep spiking neural network architecture without gradients

no code implementations27 Sep 2021 Yeshwanth Bethi, Ying Xu, Gregory Cohen, Andre van Schaik, Saeed Afshar

Through the use of simple local adaptive selection thresholds at each node, the network rapidly learns to appropriately allocate its neuronal resources at each layer for any given problem without using a real-valued error measure.

Event-based Object Detection and Tracking for Space Situational Awareness

no code implementations20 Nov 2019 Saeed Afshar, Andrew P Nicholson, Andre van Schaik, Gregory Cohen

In this work, we present optical space imaging using an unconventional yet promising class of imaging devices known as neuromorphic event-based sensors.

object-detection Object Detection

Event-based Feature Extraction Using Adaptive Selection Thresholds

no code implementations18 Jul 2019 Saeed Afshar, Ying Xu, Jonathan Tapson, André van Schaik, Gregory Cohen

A novel heuristic method for network size selection is proposed which makes use of noise events and their feature representations.

Benchmarking

Investigation of event-based memory surfaces for high-speed tracking, unsupervised feature extraction and object recognition

no code implementations14 Mar 2016 Saeed Afshar, Gregory Cohen, Tara Julia Hamilton, Jonathan Tapson, Andre van Schaik

This variance motivated the investigation of event-based decaying memory surfaces in comparison to time-based decaying memory surfaces to capture the temporal aspect of the event-based data.

Object Recognition

An Online Learning Algorithm for Neuromorphic Hardware Implementation

no code implementations11 May 2015 Chetan Singh Thakur, Runchun Wang, Saeed Afshar, Gregory Cohen, Tara Julia Hamilton, Jonathan Tapson, Andre van Schaik

We propose a sign-based online learning (SOL) algorithm for a neuromorphic hardware framework called Trainable Analogue Block (TAB).

regression

Turn Down that Noise: Synaptic Encoding of Afferent SNR in a Single Spiking Neuron

no code implementations11 Nov 2014 Saeed Afshar, Libin George, Jonathan Tapson, Andre van Schaik, Philip de Chazal, Tara Julia Hamilton

We have added a simplified neuromorphic model of Spike Time Dependent Plasticity (STDP) to the Synapto-dendritic Kernel Adapting Neuron (SKAN).

Racing to Learn: Statistical Inference and Learning in a Single Spiking Neuron with Adaptive Kernels

no code implementations6 Aug 2014 Saeed Afshar, Libin George, Jonathan Tapson, Andre van Schaik, Tara Julia Hamilton

This paper describes the Synapto-dendritic Kernel Adapting Neuron (SKAN), a simple spiking neuron model that performs statistical inference and unsupervised learning of spatiotemporal spike patterns.

The Ripple Pond: Enabling Spiking Networks to See

no code implementations13 Jun 2013 Saeed Afshar, Gregory Cohen, Runchun Wang, Andre van Schaik, Jonathan Tapson, Torsten Lehmann, Tara Julia Hamilton

In this paper we present the biologically inspired Ripple Pond Network (RPN), a simply connected spiking neural network that, operating together with recently proposed PolyChronous Networks (PCN), enables rapid, unsupervised, scale and rotation invariant object recognition using efficient spatio-temporal spike coding.

Object Recognition

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