Title
Neuromorphic Data Augmentation for Training Spiking Neural Networks.
Abstract
Developing neuromorphic intelligence on event-based datasets with Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has recently attracted much research attention. However, the limited size of event-based datasets makes SNNs prone to overfitting and unstable convergence. This issue remains unexplored by previous academic works. In an effort to minimize this generalization gap, we propose Neuromorphic Data Augmentation (NDA), a family of geometric augmentations specifically designed for event-based datasets with the goal of significantly stabilizing the SNN training and reducing the generalization gap between training and test performance. The proposed method is simple and compatible with existing SNN training pipelines. Using the proposed augmentation, for the first time, we demonstrate the feasibility of unsupervised contrastive learning for SNNs. We conduct comprehensive experiments on prevailing neuromorphic vision benchmarks and show that NDA yields substantial improvements over previous state-of-the-art results. For example, the NDA-based SNN achieves accuracy gain on CIFAR10-DVS and N-Caltech 101 by 10.1% and 13.7%, respectively. Code is available on GitHub (URL).
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-20071-7_37
European Conference on Computer Vision
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Data augmentation,Event-based vision,Spiking neural networks
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuhang Li100.68
Youngeun Kim200.68
Hyoungseob Park301.35
Tamar Geller400.34
Priyadarshini Panda501.01