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ReviewBrain sciences2022

Spiking Neural Networks and Their Applications: A Review.

Kashu Yamazaki, Viet-Khoa Vo-Ho, Darshan Bulsara, Ngan Le

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Review in Brain sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. The Human Mind in Dialogue With its Replica AI - a Historical Perspective.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kashu YamazakiDepartment of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Viet-Khoa Vo-HoDepartment of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Darshan BulsaraDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
Ngan LeDepartment of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.

Funding

National Science Foundation 1946391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed the great success of deep neural networks in various domains. However, deep neural networks are very resource-intensive in terms of energy consumption, data requirements, and high computational costs. With the recent increasing need for the autonomy of machines in the real world, e.g., self-driving vehicles, drones, and collaborative robots, exploitation of deep neural networks in those applications has been actively investigated. In those applications, energy and computational efficiencies are especially important because of the need for real-time responses and the limited energy supply. A promising solution to these previously infeasible applications has recently been given by biologically plausible spiking neural networks. Spiking neural networks aim to bridge the gap between neuroscience and machine learning, using biologically realistic models of neurons to carry out the computation. Due to their functional similarity to the biological neural network, spiking neural networks can embrace the sparsity found in biology and are highly compatible with temporal code. Our contributions in this work are: (i) we give a comprehensive review of theories of biological neurons; (ii) we present various existing spike-based neuron models, which have been studied in neuroscience; (iii) we detail synapse models; (iv) we provide a review of artificial neural networks; (v) we provide detailed guidance on how to train spike-based neuron models; (vi) we revise available spike-based neuron frameworks that have been developed to support implementing spiking neural networks; (vii) finally, we cover existing spiking neural network applications in computer vision and robotics domains. The paper concludes with discussions of future perspectives.

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autonomous robotbiological neural networkcomputer visionneuromorphic hardwarereviewroboticsspiking neural networkssurveytoolkits

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PMID35884670
PMCPMC9313413

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