• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.68-73
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• 2020

This paper proposes an asynchronous circuit design methodology using a new Single Gate Sleep Convention Logic (SG-SCL) with advantages such as low area overhead, low power consumption compared with the conventional null convention logic (NCL) methodologies. The delay-insensitive NCL asynchronous circuits consist of dual-rail structures using {DATA0, DATA1, NULL} encoding which carry a significant area overhead by comparison with single-rail structures. The area overhead can lead to high power consumption. In this paper, the proposed single gate SCL deploys a power gating structure for a new {DATA, SLEEP} encoding to achieve low area overhead and low power consumption maintaining high performance during DATA cycle. In this paper, the proposed methodology has been evaluated by a liquid state machine (LSM) for pattern and digit recognition using FPGA and a 0.18 ㎛ CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1.8 V. the LSM is a neural network (NN) algorithm similar to a spiking neural network (SNN). The experimental results show that the proposed SG-SCL LSM reduced power consumption by 10% compared to the conventional LSM.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.286-291
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a system that recommends music through tempo-oriented music classification and sensor-based human activity recognition. The proposed method indexes music files using tempo-oriented music classification and recommends suitable music according to the recognized user's activity. For accurate music classification, a dynamic classification based on a modulation spectrum and a sequence classification based on a Mel-spectrogram are used in combination. In addition, simple accelerometer and gyroscope sensor data of the smartphone are applied to deep spiking neural networks to improve activity recognition performance. Finally, music recommendation is performed through a mapping table considering the relationship between the recognized activity and the indexed music file. The experimental results show that the proposed system is suitable for use in any practical mobile device with a music player.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2006

This paper introduces the research progress on the artificial brain in the Telerobotics and Control Laboratory at KAIST. This series of studies is based on the assumption that it will be possible to develop an artificial intelligence by copying the mechanisms of the animal brain. Two important brain mechanisms are considered: spike-timing dependent plasticity and dopaminergic plasticity. Each mechanism is implemented in two coding paradigms: spike-codes and rate-codes. Spike-timing dependent plasticity is essential for self-organization in the brain. Dopamine neurons deliver reward signals and modify the synaptic efficacies in order to maximize the predicted reward. This paper addresses how artificial intelligence can emerge by the synergy between self-organization and reinforcement learning. For implementation issues, the rate codes of the brain mechanisms are developed to calculate the neuron dynamics efficiently.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.47-57
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• 2021

Neuromorphic technology is proposed to complement the shortcomings of existing artificial intelligence technology by mimicking the human brain structure and computational process with hardware. NA-IDE has also been proposed for developing neuromorphic hardware-based IoT applications. To implement an SNN model in NA-IDE, commonly used input data must be transformed for use in the SNN model. In this paper, we implemented a neural coding method encoder component that converts image data into a spike train signal and uses it as an SNN input. The decoder component is implemented to convert the output back to image data when the SNN model generates a spike train signal. If the decoder component uses the same parameters as the encoding process, it can generate static data similar to the original data. It can be used in fields such as image-to-image and speech-to-speech to transform and regenerate input data using the proposed encoder and decoder.