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Asynchrony Increases Efficiency: Time Encoding of Videos and Low-Rank Signals

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling, because (1) the out ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Time Encoding Approach to Training Spiking Neural Networks

Karen Adam

While Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been gaining in popularity, it seems that the algorithms used to train them are not powerful enough to solve the same tasks as those tackled by classical Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).In this paper, we provide ...

IEEE2022

Timing is Everything

Karen Adam

In this thesis, timing is everything. In the first part, we mean this literally, as we tackle systems that encode information using timing alone. In the second part, we adopt the standard, metaphoric interpretation of this saying and show the importance of ...

EPFL2022

How Asynchronous Events Encode Video

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

As event-based sensing gains in popularity, theoretical understanding is needed to harness this technology’s potential. Instead of recording video by capturing frames, event-based cameras have sensors that emit events when their inputs change, thus encodin ...

IEEE2021

Sampling and Reconstruction of Bandlimited Signals with Multi-Channel Time Encoding

Martin Vetterli, Karen Adam, Adam James Scholefield

Sampling is classically performed by recording the amplitude of the input at given time instants; however, sampling and reconstructing a signal using multiple devices in parallel becomes a more difficult problem to solve when the devices have an unknown sh ...

2020

Encoding And Decoding Mixed Bandlimited Signals Using Spiking Integrate-And-Fire Neurons

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

Conventional sampling focuses on encoding and decoding bandlimited signals by recording signal amplitudes at known time points. Alternately, sampling can be approached using biologically-inspired schemes. Among these are integrate-and-fire time encoding ma ...

IEEE2020

Multi-channel Time Encoding for Improved Reconstruction of Bandlimited Signals

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

Traditional sampling involves encoding a signal through (time, value)-pairs. In contrast, time encoding machines (TEMs) characterize a signal by recording time points which depend on the integral of the signal over time. We study multi-channel TEMs where c ...

2019