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IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Acceleration of spiking neural networks in emerging multi-core and GPU architectures
Recently, there has been strong interest in large-scale simulations of biological spiking neural networks (SNN) to model the human brain mechanisms and capture its inference capabi...
Mohammad A. Bhuiyan, Vivek K. Pallipuram, Melissa ...
ESANN
2006
13 years 6 months ago
FPGA implementation of an integrate-and-fire LEGION model for image segmentation
Abstract. Despite several previous studies, little progress has been made in building successful neural systems for image segmentation in digital hardware. Spiking neural networks ...
Bernard Girau, Cesar Torres-Huitzil
ESANN
2008
13 years 6 months ago
An FPGA-based model suitable for evolution and development of spiking neural networks
We propose a digital neuron model suitable for evolving and growing heterogeneous spiking neural networks on FPGAs using a piecewise linear approximation of the Quadratic Integrate...
Hooman Shayani, Peter J. Bentley, Andrew M. Tyrrel...
ICANN
1997
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks on Different Hardware Platforms
: Substantial evidence indicates that the time structure of neuronal spike trains is relevant in neuronal signal processing. Bio-inspired spiking neural networks are taking these r...
Axel Jahnke, Tim Schönauer, Ulrich Roth, K. M...
GECCO
2004
Springer
212views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
An Evolutionary Autonomous Agent with Visual Cortex and Recurrent Spiking Columnar Neural Network
Spiking neural networks are computationally more powerful than conventional artificial neural networks. Although this fact should make them especially desirable for use in evoluti...
Rich Drewes, James B. Maciokas, Sushil J. Louis, P...
SYNASC
2005
IEEE
97views Algorithms» more  SYNASC 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Spiking Neural Networks
The paper presents a new reinforcement learning mechanism for spiking neural networks. The algorithm is derived for networks of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons, but it can ...
Razvan V. Florian
ICANN
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization of Spiking Neural Networks
Evolutionary multi-objective optimization of spiking neural networks for solving classification problems is studied in this paper. By means of a Paretobased multi-objective geneti...
Yaochu Jin, Ruojing Wen, Bernhard Sendhoff
ICANN
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
SpikeStream: A Fast and Flexible Simulator of Spiking Neural Networks
SpikeStream is a new simulator of biologically structured spiking neural networks that can be used to edit, display and simulate up to 100,000 neurons. This simulator uses a combin...
David Gamez
ASAP
2009
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ASAP 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
NeMo: A Platform for Neural Modelling of Spiking Neurons Using GPUs
—Simulating spiking neural networks is of great interest to scientists wanting to model the functioning of the brain. However, large-scale models are expensive to simulate due to...
Andreas Fidjeland, Etienne B. Roesch, Murray Shana...