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Volume 36 | Number 6 | November 2019

SPECIAL SECTION

97

LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND
SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR
BRAIN-INSPIRED COMPUTING
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EVENT-DRIVEN SENSING FOR
EFFICIENT PERCEPTION

Shih-Chii Liu, Bodo Rueckauer,
Enea Ceolini, Adrian Huber, 
and Tobi Delbruck

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FEATURE

Osvaldo Simeone, Bipin Rajendran,
André Grüning,
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou,
Mike Davies, Sophie Deneve,
and Guang-Bin Huang

Giacomo Indiveri
and Yulia Sandamirskaya

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Bipin Rajendran, Abu Sebastian,
Michael Schmuker, Narayan Srinivasa,
and Evangelos Eleftheriou

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE AND
TIME FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
IN NEUROMORPHIC AGENTS

SIGNAL PROCESSING
FOUNDATIONS FOR TIME-BASED
SIGNAL REPRESENTATIONS
Noyan C. Sevüktekin,
Lav R. Varshney,
Pavan K. Hanumolu,
and Andrew C. Singer

LOW-POWER NEUROMORPHIC
HARDWARE FOR SIGNAL
PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

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Reinhold Haeb-Umbach,
Shinji Watanabe, Tomohiro Nakatani,
Michiel Bacchiani, Björn Hoffmeister,
Michael L. Seltzer, Heiga Zen,
and Mehrez Souden

ON THE COVER
This special issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
examines the role of signal processing in neuromorphic
computing and brings together key researchers to provide readers with up-to-date and survey-style articles on
algorithmic, hardware, and neuroscience perspectives on
the state-of-the-art aspects of this emerging field.

COLUMNS
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SURROGATE GRADIENT LEARNING
IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS

125

Emre O. Neftci, Hesham Mostafa,
and Friedemann Zenke

64

SPEECH PROCESSING FOR
DIGITAL HOME ASSISTANTS

AN INTRODUCTION TO
PROBABILISTIC SPIKING
NEURAL NETWORKS

Special Reports

Medicine on the Move
John Edwards

Applications Corner

A Signal Processing Perspective
of Monitoring Active Volcanoes
Muhammad Salman Khan,
Millaray Curilem, Fernando Huenupán,
Muhammad Farhan Khan,
and Néstor Becerra Yoma

Hyeryung Jang, Osvaldo Simeone,
Brian Gardner, and André Grüning

PG. 8

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SPIKING RESERVOIR NETWORKS

88

NEUROSCIENCE-INSPIRED
ONLINE UNSUPERVISED
LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Nicholas Soures
and Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Cengiz Pehlevan
and Dmitri B. Chklovskii

PG. 168

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