VPRTempo: A Fast Temporally Encoded Spiking Neural Network for Visual Place Recognition

Adam D Hines,Peter G Stratton,Michael Milford,Tobias Fischer,Adam D Hines,Peter G Stratton,Michael Milford,Tobias Fischer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are at the forefront of neuromorphic computing thanks to their potential energy-efficiency, low latencies, and capacity for continual learning. While these capabilities are well suited for robotics tasks, SNNs have seen limited adaptation in this field thus far. This work introduces a SNN for Visual Place Recognition (VPR) that is both trainable within minutes and qu...