Digit Recognition using Multimodal Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00552v1
• Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:27:40 GMT
• Title: Digit Recognition using Multimodal Spiking Neural Networks
• Authors: William Bjorndahl, Jack Easton, Austin Modoff, Eric C. Larson, Joseph Camp, Prasanna Rangarajan,
• Abstract summary: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks that are biologically inspired to process data. SNNs are used to process event-based data due to their neuromorphic nature.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks that are biologically inspired to process data in a fashion that emulates the exchange of signals in the brain. Within the Computer Vision community SNNs have garnered significant attention due in large part to the availability of event-based sensors that produce a spatially resolved spike train in response to changes in scene radiance. SNNs are used to process event-based data due to their neuromorphic nature. The proposed work examines the neuromorphic advantage of fusing multiple sensory inputs in classification tasks. Specifically we study the performance of a SNN in digit classification by passing in a visual modality branch (Neuromorphic-MNIST [N-MNIST]) and an auditory modality branch (Spiking Heidelberg Digits [SHD]) from datasets that were created using event-based sensors to generate a series of time-dependent events. It is observed that multi-modal SNNs outperform unimodal visual and unimodal auditory SNNs. Furthermore, it is observed that the process of sensory fusion is insensitive to the depth at which the visual and auditory branches are combined. This work achieves a 98.43% accuracy on the combined N-MNIST and SHD dataset using a multimodal SNN that concatenates the visual and auditory branches at a late depth.

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