Time-step Mixup for Efficient Spiking Knowledge Transfer from Appearance to Event Domain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12959v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:02:36 GMT
• Title: Time-step Mixup for Efficient Spiking Knowledge Transfer from Appearance to Event Domain
• Authors: Yuqi Xie, Shuhan Ye, Chong Wang, Jiazhen Xu, Le Shen, Yuanbin Qian, Jiangbo Qian,
• Abstract summary: Time-step Mixup knowledge transfer exploits the asynchronous nature of SNNs by interpolating RGB and DVS inputs at various time-steps.<n>Our approach enables smoother knowledge transfer, alleviates modality shift during training, and achieves superior performance in spiking image classification tasks.
• Score: 9.691720154439375
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The integration of event cameras and spiking neural networks holds great promise for energy-efficient visual processing. However, the limited availability of event data and the sparse nature of DVS outputs pose challenges for effective training. Although some prior work has attempted to transfer semantic knowledge from RGB datasets to DVS, they often overlook the significant distribution gap between the two modalities. In this paper, we propose Time-step Mixup knowledge transfer (TMKT), a novel fine-grained mixing strategy that exploits the asynchronous nature of SNNs by interpolating RGB and DVS inputs at various time-steps. To enable label mixing in cross-modal scenarios, we further introduce modality-aware auxiliary learning objectives. These objectives support the time-step mixup process and enhance the model's ability to discriminate effectively across different modalities. Our approach enables smoother knowledge transfer, alleviates modality shift during training, and achieves superior performance in spiking image classification tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method across multiple datasets. The code will be released after the double-blind review process.

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