1 code implementation • 27 Apr 2023 • Sami Arja, Alexandre Marcireau, Richard L. Balthazor, Matthew G. McHarg, Saeed Afshar, Gregory Cohen
This is to ensure that the contrast is only high around the correct motion parameters.
1 code implementation • 17 Nov 2022 • Nicholas Owen Ralph, Alexandre Marcireau, Saeed Afshar, Nicholas Tothill, André van Schaik, Gregory Cohen
These techniques are vital in building event-based space imaging systems capable of real-world space situational awareness tasks.
1 code implementation • IEEE Access 2022 • Yeshwanth Bethi, Ying Xu, Gregory Cohen, André van Schaik, and 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 an error measure.
no code implementations • 27 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.
no code implementations • 20 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.
no code implementations • 18 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.
31 code implementations • 17 Feb 2017 • Gregory Cohen, Saeed Afshar, Jonathan Tapson, André van Schaik
The MNIST dataset has become a standard benchmark for learning, classification and computer vision systems.
Ranked #6 on Image Classification on EMNIST-Digits
no code implementations • 14 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.
no code implementations • 11 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).
no code implementations • 13 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.