no code implementations • 9 Feb 2024 • Ali Safa, Vikrant Jaltare, Samira Sebt, Kameron Gano, Johannes Leugering, Georges Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
Our results show that the proposed approach strongly outperforms the use of backprop by up to $27\%$ higher accuracy when subject to strong hardware non-idealities.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2023 • Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Lars Keuninckx, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Francky Catthoor, Georges Gielen, Gert Cauwenberghs
This work studies how brain-inspired neural ensembles equipped with local Hebbian plasticity can perform active inference (AIF) in order to control dynamical agents.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2022 • Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges Gielen
This work proposes a first-of-its-kind SLAM architecture fusing an event-based camera and a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar for drone navigation.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2022 • Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges Gielen
This paper demonstrates for the first time that a biologically-plausible spiking neural network (SNN) equipped with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) can continuously learn to detect walking people on the fly using retina-inspired, event-based cameras.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2021 • Ali Safa, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges Gielen
We present new theoretical foundations for unsupervised Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning in spiking neural networks (SNNs).