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ArticleInterface focus2018

Spiking neural networks for computer vision.

Michael Hopkins, Garibaldi Pineda-García, Petruţ A Bogdan, Steve B Furber

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Article in Interface focus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Michael HopkinsSchool of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Garibaldi Pineda-GarcíaSchool of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6550-6016
Petruţ A BogdanSchool of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5535-7865
Steve B FurberSchool of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6524-3367
Google (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

State-of-the-art computer vision systems use frame-based cameras that sample the visual scene as a series of high-resolution images. These are then processed using convolutional neural networks using neurons with continuous outputs. Biological vision systems use a quite different approach, where the eyes (cameras) sample the visual scene continuously, often with a non-uniform resolution, and generate neural spike events in response to changes in the scene. The resulting spatio-temporal patterns of events are then processed through networks of spiking neurons. Such event-based processing offers advantages in terms of focusing constrained resources on the most salient features of the perceived scene, and those advantages should also accrue to engineered vision systems based upon similar principles. Event-based vision sensors, and event-based processing exemplified by the SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) machine, can be used to model the biological vision pathway at various levels of detail. Here we use this approach to explore structural synaptic plasticity as a possible mechanism whereby biological vision systems may learn the statistics of their inputs without supervision, pointing the way to engineered vision systems with similar online learning capabilities.

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computer visionneuromorphic computingspiking neural networksSpiNNakerstructural plasticity

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PMID29951187
PMCPMC6015816
OpenAlexW2804249586

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