4 papers
NaviSense: A Multimodal Assistive Mobile application for Object Retrieval by Persons with Visual Impairment
Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Fuli Qiao, Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas +4
People with visual impairments often face significant challenges in locating and retrieving objects in their surroundings. Existing assistive technologies present a trade-off: syst…
Losing the Plot: How VLM responses degrade on imperfect charts
Philip Wootaek Shin, Jack Sampson, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan +2
Vision language models (VLMs) show strong results on chart understanding, yet existing benchmarks assume clean figures and fact based queries. Real world charts often contain disto…
A Bio-inspired Asymmetric Double-Gate Ferroelectric FET for Emulating Astrocyte and Dendrite Dynamics in Neuromorphic Systems
Zhouhang Jiang, A N M Nafiul Islam, Zhuangyu Han +13
Neuromorphic systems seek to replicate the functionalities of biological neural networks to attain significant improvements in performance and efficiency of AI computing platforms.…
An In-Situ Spatial-Temporal Sequence Detector for Neuromorphic Vision Sensor Empowered by High Density Vertical NAND Storage
Zijian Zhao, Varun Darshana Parekh, Po-Kai Hsu +17
Neuromorphic vision sensors require efficient real-time pattern recognition, yet conventional architectures struggle with energy and latency constraints. Here, we present a novel i…