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Publications (5)

cs.NE2016

Acquisition of Visual Features Through Probabilistic Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity

Amirhossein Tavanaei, Timothee Masquelier, Anthony S Maida

The final version of this paper has been published in IEEEXplore available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7727213. Please cite this paper as: Amirhossein Tavanaei, Timothee…

cs.CV2024

Dilated Convolution with Learnable Spacings makes visual models more aligned with humans: a Grad-CAM study

Rabih Chamas, Ismail Khalfaoui-Hassani, Timothee Masquelier

Dilated Convolution with Learnable Spacing (DCLS) is a recent advanced convolution method that allows enlarging the receptive fields (RF) without increasing the number of parameter…

cs.NE2021

Incorporating Learnable Membrane Time Constant to Enhance Learning of Spiking Neural Networks

Wei Fang, Zhaofei Yu, Yanqi Chen +3

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted enormous research interest due to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological plausibility.…

cs.NE2019

Deep Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

Amirhossein Tavanaei, Masoud Ghodrati, Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh +2

In recent years, deep learning has been a revolution in the field of machine learning, for computer vision in particular. In this approach, a deep (multilayer) artificial neural ne…

cs.NE2018

Representation Learning using Event-based STDP

Amirhossein Tavanaei, Timothee Masquelier, Anthony Maida

Although representation learning methods developed within the framework of traditional neural networks are relatively mature, developing a spiking representation model remains a ch…