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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

Memristor-Based Edge Detection for Spike Encoded Pixels.

Daniel J Mannion, Adnan Mehonic, Wing H Ng, Anthony J Kenyon

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel J MannionDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Adnan MehonicDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Wing H NgDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Anthony J KenyonDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Memristors have many uses in machine learning and neuromorphic hardware. From memory elements in dot product engines to replicating both synapse and neuron wall behaviors, the memristor has proved a versatile component. Here we demonstrate an analog mode of operation observed in our silicon oxide memristors and apply this to the problem of edge detection. We demonstrate how a potential divider exploiting this analog behavior can prove a scalable solution to edge detection. We confirm its behavior experimentally and simulate its performance on a standard testbench. We show good performance comparable to existing memristor based work with a benchmark score of 0.465 on the BSDS500 dataset, while simultaneously maintaining a lower component count.

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computer visionedge detectionmemristorneuromorphic computingspiking neural networks

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PMID32009876
PMCPMC6978841

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