STDP-Driven Development of Attention-Based People Detection in Spiking Neural Networks

Ali Safa*, Ilja Ocket, Andre Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, Georges G.E. Gielen

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Abstract

This letter provides, to the best of our knowledge, a first analysis of how biologically plausible spiking neural networks (SNNs) equipped with spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) can learn to detect people on the fly from nonindependent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d) streams of retina-inspired, event camera data. Our system works as follows. First, a short sequence of event data, capturing a walking human from a flying drone, is forwarded in its natural order to an SNN-STDP system, which also receives teacher spiking signals from the neural activity readout block. Then, when the end of the learning sequence is reached, the learned system is assessed on testing sequences. In addition, we also present a new interpretation of anti-Hebbian plasticity as an overfitting control mechanism and provide experimental demonstrations of our findings. This work contributes to the study of attention-based development and perception in bioinspired systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)380-387
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Volume16
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bioinspired vision
  • continual learning (CL)
  • spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP)

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