Pooling spike neural network for fast rendering in global illumination

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Constantin ◽  
Andre Bigand ◽  
Ibtissam Constantin
IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 61246-61254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Adnan Shiltagh Al-Jamali ◽  
Hamed S. Al-Raweshidy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2094 (3) ◽  
pp. 032032
Author(s):  
L A Astapova ◽  
A M Korsakov ◽  
A V Bakhshiev ◽  
E A Eremenko ◽  
E Yu Smirnova

Abstract One of the directions of development within the framework of the neuromorphic approach is the development of anatomically similar models of brain networks, taking into account the structurally complex structure of neurons and the adaptation of connections between them, as well as the development of learning algorithms for such models. In this work, we use the previously presented compartmental spike model of a neuron, which describes the structure (dendritic tree, soma, synapses) and behaviour (temporal and spatial signal summation, generation of action potential, stimulation and suppression of electrical activity) of a biological neuron. An algorithm for the structural organization of neuron models into a spike neural network is proposed for recognizing an arbitrary impulse pattern by introducing inhibitory synapses between trained neuron models. The dynamically adapting neuron models used are trained according to a previously proposed algorithm that automatically selects parameters such as soma size, dendrite length, and the number of synapses on each of the dendrites in order to induce a temporal response at the output depending on the input pattern encoded using a time window and temporal delays in the vector of single spikes arriving at a separate dendrite of a neuron. The developed algorithms are evaluated on the Iris dataset classification problem with four training examples from each class. As a result of the classification, separate disjoint clusters are formed, which demonstrates the applicability of the proposed spike neural network with a dynamically changing structure of elements in the problem of pattern recognition and classification.


2022 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Shilin Zhu ◽  
Zexiang Xu ◽  
Tiancheng Sun ◽  
Alexandr Kuznetsov ◽  
Mark Meyer ◽  
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Although Monte Carlo path tracing is a simple and effective algorithm to synthesize photo-realistic images, it is often very slow to converge to noise-free results when involving complex global illumination. One of the most successful variance-reduction techniques is path guiding, which can learn better distributions for importance sampling to reduce pixel noise. However, previous methods require a large number of path samples to achieve reliable path guiding. We present a novel neural path guiding approach that can reconstruct high-quality sampling distributions for path guiding from a sparse set of samples, using an offline trained neural network. We leverage photons traced from light sources as the primary input for sampling density reconstruction, which is effective for challenging scenes with strong global illumination. To fully make use of our deep neural network, we partition the scene space into an adaptive hierarchical grid, in which we apply our network to reconstruct high-quality sampling distributions for any local region in the scene. This allows for effective path guiding for arbitrary path bounce at any location in path tracing. We demonstrate that our photon-driven neural path guiding approach can generalize to diverse testing scenes, often achieving better rendering results than previous path guiding approaches and opening up interesting future directions.


Author(s):  
Shuai Shao ◽  
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Naoyuki Kubota

In recent years, population aging has become an important social issue. We hope to achieve an elderly health care system through technical means. In this study, we developed an elderly health care system. We chose to use environmental sensors to estimate the behavior of older adults. We found that traditional methods have difficulty solving the problem of excessive indoor environmental differences in different households. Therefore, we provide a fuzzy spike neural network. By modifying the sensitivity of input using a fuzzy inference system, we can solve the problem without additional training. In the experiment, we used temperature and humidity data to make an estimation of behavior in the bathroom. The results show that the system can estimate behavior with 97% accuracy and 78% sensitivity.


IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 17071-17082
Author(s):  
Chuang Liu ◽  
Wanghui Shen ◽  
Le Zhang ◽  
Yingkui Du ◽  
Zhonghu Yuan

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (3s) ◽  
pp. 570-579
Author(s):  
И.А. Суражевский ◽  
К.Э. Никируй ◽  
А.В. Емельянов ◽  
В.В. Рыльков ◽  
В.А. Демин

Разработаны Verilog-A-модели тормозного и возбуждающего нейронов с бипрямоугольной и битреугольной формами импульсов (спайков) и мемристивными синаптическими весами. Показана возможность сходимости весов в численном моделировании обучения по Хеббу нейрона на основе локальных правил модификации весов. Предложена схема нейросинаптического ядра для аппаратной реализации формальных и спайковых нейронных сетей на их основе. The paper presents Verilog-A models of excitatory and inhibitory neurons with birectangular and bitriangular shapes of spikes. Besides, it highlights the possibility of convergence of weights in the numerical simulation of a neuron Hebbian learning based on local weight updates rules, as well as offers schemes for the neurosynaptic core for the hardware implementation of formal and spike neural network algorithms.


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