SBMVTrack is a fully spiking neural network framework designed for energy-efficient UAV visual tracking. It introduces Energy-Weighted Spike Budgeting (EWSB) to constrain spike activity based on computational cost, and Masked Multi-View Target Modeling (MVTM) to enhance target representation by leveraging correlated temporal views. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that SBMVTrack reduces spike firing rates and theoretical energy consumption while maintaining competitive tracking accuracy.
By Pengzhi Zhong, Jiwei Mo, Haolun Li, Ge Zheng, Jingqi Wang, Xinyi Bo, Shuiwang Li
arXiv:2608.22072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly important tools in industries ranging from research, to energy, to defense. AUVs are power-const...
By Gwenevere Frank, Gert Cauwenberghs
arXiv:2609.24403v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Biological visual systems achieve continuous, low-latency motion perception by processing sparse, asynchronous spiking signals, enabling real-time trac...
By Mazdak Fatahi, \v{S}\'arka Pryjmakov\'a, Pierre Boulet, Giulia D'Angelo
arXiv:2607. 11914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of current Spiking Neural Network (SNN) research is to improve their accuracy toward becoming low-power alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Jiahong Zhang, Sijun Shen, Man Yao, Han Xu, Mingqiang Huang, Yonghong Tian, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
REACT is a fully spiking state‑space model that processes raw event‑camera data one event at a time, avoiding temporal accumulation and its associated delay. It employs a complex‑valued spiking neuron (C‑SiLIF) whose dynamics are driven by the inter‑event interval, enabling continuous‑time state updates at microsecond resolution. Evaluated on gesture recognition and time‑to‑collision estimation, REACT achieves low latency (4.6 ms) and high accuracy, supports anytime prediction, zero‑shot transfer, and INT8 quantization, dramatically reducing energy consumption.
By Geoffroy Keime, Nicolas Cuperlier, Benoit R. Cottereau
The paper introduces four new event‑based vision datasets created with the ANTShapes simulation tool, designed to support object classification research using spiking neural networks (SNNs). These datasets vary in difficulty and are benchmarked against established spiking datasets such as N‑MNIST, CIFAR10‑DVS, DVSGesture, and POKER‑DVS using a convolutional SNN. The work provides detailed, high‑quality datasets for future experiments and validates ANTShapes as a suitable tool for generating event‑based vision data.
By M. Middleton, H. Kayan, B. Sen Bhattacharya, T. Ali, E. Baikas, M. Vousden, C. Perera, O. Rhodes, E. Gheorghiu, M. A. Trefzer
SDPAD is a fully spike‑driven end‑to‑end planning pipeline for autonomous driving that converts a pre‑trained ANN perception stack into integer‑spike form, lifts multi‑view images into a bird’s‑eye‑view space with a spike‑driven depth distribution, and plans via a spiking query transformer that fuses ego, agent, and map queries. On the nuScenes benchmark it matches strong ANN planners with an average L₂ error of 0.40 m and a collision rate of 0.12 %, while consuming only 69.9 mJ—less than 2 % of recent ANN baselines. In closed‑loop NAVSIM evaluation it achieves 86.3 PDMS, surpassing the previous SNN planner SAD by 4.3 points and matching mainstream ANN planners at a fraction of their energy.
By Chengjun Zhang, Yuhao Zhang, Jie Yang, Mohamad Sawan
arXiv:2607. 04921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning algorithms are notorious for their high carbon footprint and computational demands that limit their deployment on edge devices and raise concerns about their long-term sustainability.
By Manish Kolachalam, Rani Malhotra
arXiv:2604. 08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Zecheng Hao, Shenghao Xie, Kang Chen, Wenxuan Liu, Zhaofei Yu, Tiejun Huang
arXiv:2610.09710v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: ANN-to-SNN conversion offers a practical route toward energy-efficient spiking Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models by bypassing the substantial cost of...
By Jingya Wang, Dehao Zhang, Shuai Wang, Malu Zhang, Yang Yang, Haizhou Li
Visual Prompting (VP) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for adapting large-scale pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by incorporating learnable prompts at the input level. However, existing VP methods typically employ dense pixel-level prompts, which often suffer from redundant perturbations, limited generalization and energy inefficiency.
arXiv:2606. 29783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based aerial tracking is critical in GPS-denied environments.
By Yan Miao, Karteek Gandiboyina, Noah Giles, Hideki Okamoto, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Sayan Mitra