2006 NIPS NeurIPS 2006

A selective attention multi--chip system with dynamic synapses and spiking neurons

Abstract

Selective attention is the strategy used by biological sensory systems to solve the problem of limited parallel processing capacity: salient subregions of the input stimuli are serially processed, while nonsalient regions are suppressed. We present an mixed mode analog/digital Very Large Scale Integration implementation of a building block for a multichip neuromorphic hardware model of selective attention. We describe the chip's architecture and its behavior, when its is part of a multichip system with a spiking retina as input, and show how it can be used to implement in real-time flexible models of bottom-up attention.

🚀 Conference Pioneer — NIPS 2006
🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Deep Learning
📈 Trend Setter — Multimodal Learning
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — neuromorphic hardware
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Reinforcement Learning
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — real-time processing