Telluride 2006-now

Telluride 2020

General Chairs

Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering Liaison

Website, Workshop IT

Reporting

Participants

See https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2020/participants?authuser=0 

Challenges

The challenge will be introduced on Friday of the first week and groups will be formed to work on them. These groups will meet once per week to discuss infrastructure and progress. On Sept 10 and 11, the teams will present their results. The aim is that each challenge will have sufficient progress to prepare a paper about their results.

Benchmarking event-based meta-learning (METAL)

Emre Neftci (UC Irvine)

Meta-Learning (ML) or "learning-to-learn" techniques have been established for fast and data-efficient learning within and across task domains. Neuromorphic embedded learning systems can strongly benefit from ML by acquiring prior knowledge in a relevant task domain. Community-led neruomorphic benchmarks and libraries for ML are still missing. This project/challenge address these gaps in two steps: 1) Defining event-based meta-learning libraries and benchmarks; and 2) Creating and participating in a cross domain meta learning challenges.

Learning to race (L2RACE)

Tobi Delbruck (UZH-ETH Zurich)

Learning to control dynamical systems is a hot topic. We will explore it in a simple virtual race track where contestants duke it out using their software agent. The cars will have unknown dynamics on a known track (which has unknown traction characteristics). Contestants get full state information (eye of god, so no need for fancy perception/SLAM) and use it to learn how to control the cars to win a time trial or race. Data collection will be real-time (no transfer learning tricks), but can use E2E human data. This will be a pure python ML contest of the best control learning algorithm.

By contrast with the excellent F1TENTH challenge, L2RACE will be much simpler and aimed purely at efficiently learning a good controller from the minimum amount of data.

Insights into the early motion pathway (VISION)

Cornelia Fermüller (Univ. of Maryland)

The first computations of any motion analysis involve image motion estimation, segmentation on the basis of movement, and 3D motion estimation. In previous studies, we have proposed hypotheses on basic computational principles in human motion estimation, which can be observed in optical illusions - patterns that cause misestimation, because something goes wrong. Examples of such computational principles are statistical bias in the estimation or causal filtering for estimating temporal derivatives (i.e. to compute changes in time, biology can only use the signal from the present and the past, but not the future). In this project, we seek to explore these principles and look at the properties a neural network would need to replicate the perception in illusions. We also will explore the role of the transient signal (that is only changes are recorded) for the early motion processes. Using the DVS, we have available a technical tool to simulate computations.

Guided reinforcement learning and imitation learning (GRILL)

Terry Stewart (Univ. of Waterloo)

This project explores ways of speeding up RL and making it more suitable for neuromorphic hardware by giving it guidance in various ways.  There are a variety of techniques to explore, and different groups involved in the project can look at different learning rules and different sorts of guidance. We will focus on tasks using the OpenAI Gym framework, with particular attention to the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge and sequential tasks using the minigrid world framework.


Telluride 2019

Organizers (who were not topic area leaders or invitees)

Sponsors

Tim Welsh MITRE Corp

Topic areas

CDS19

could not come

AUD19

MCS19

NSI19


Intel Loihi team

CNS19

Others

Applicants 

Staff

2019 Topic Areas

AUD19

Understanding the auditory brain with neural networks

CDS19

Controlling dynamical systems

MCS19

Machine Common Sense

NSI19

Neuromorphic systems for high speed sensorimotor integration, cognitive planning and control


Telluride 2018

Topic areas leaders and invitees

AUD18 - Auditory

CAL18 - Cognitive Agents

BRD18 - Building with Braindrop

ESP18 - Event Sensor Signal Processing

Staff

Additional Organizers/Adv Board

Participants

Computational Neuroscience Group

2018 Topic Areas

This year's topic areas span human cognition to the most recent advances in machine learning, neuromorphic sensors and processors. Topic areas are run under the overall framework of the workshop.

AUD18: Prediction and Surprise in Natural Sound Processing: Comparing DNNs to the human brain

BRD18: Building applications with Braindrop—a novel neuromorphic chip for embodied perception and action

CAL18: Cognitive Agents that Learn in the Wild

ESP18: Fundamentals of Event Sensor Signal Processing


2017 and 2016 come from iniforum.ch site http://telluride2016-2017.iniforum.ch/ 

Telluride 2017

Participants


Work Groups

Neuromorphic Event-based Compound Eyes and Vision

This workgroup will use the model of the compound eye of a fly to drive a variety of navigation, object recognition, and visual odometry tasks using light field event driven cameras providing a collection of small «cameras». The computation required to achieve the set task will be carried out either ...

Tracking Auditory Attention

This workgroup will investigate an autonomous auditory agent that responds to both endogenous and exogenous calls for its attention. Tying back to our earlier work in Telluride on decoding attention via EEG, we will investigate how this task changes in the face of background sounds, or changes of the task ...

Neuromorphic Autonomous Agents for Exploration and Navigation of Unknown Environments

This workshop will explore mobile neuromorphic autonomous agents in spike-based algorithms and hardware. Mobile autonomous agents require different levels of sophistication based on their environment. This group will investigate spike-based solutions to map building, path planning, goal-directed decision-making, and skill learning (e.g., driving an autonomous vehicle down a corridor ...

Computational Neuroscience Talks

During the second week of the workshop, a series of advanced seminars on computational neuroscience will take place.

Neuromorphic Approaches to Drone Autonomy

The purpose of this workgroup is to explore theories, frameworks, and tools for mapping arbitrary computations onto neuromorphic chips and to apply this infrastructure to close the sensory-cognitive-motor loop in autonomous robotic drones. Students will apply this newly gained knowledge to endow drones with autonomy. 

Telluride 2016

Participants


Computational Neuroscience Talks

During the second week of the workshop, a series of advanced seminars on computational neuroscience will take place.


Decoding Multi-Modal Effects on Auditory Cognition

The main focus of our group is hearing, but we'd also like to measure the influence of other sensory modalities, expectations and action. The real world involves many sources and objects within complex scenes that need to be parsed before they can be acted upon. We seek to develop reliable ...


Spike-Based Cognition in Active Neuromorphic Systems


The process of cognition is often thought to take place purely within the brain, where a representation of the external environment is formed, which is then used to plan behavioral strategies which are implemented by the body. This “feedforward model” has recently been challenged by the notion of embodied cognition ...


Neuromorphic Tactile Sensing

This workshop aims to provide tutorials on microneurography, an introduction to the neurophysiology of the peripheral nervous system, including the somatosensory system and mechanotransduction, and an examination of the state of the art in peripheral nervous system interfaces for neuroprosthetic control. It also provides an opportunity for attendees to engage ...


SPIKE: Visual Navigation

Spike-based visual navigation and localization, making use of DVS, Kinect, Turtle bot, and T-Lion Drone


SPIKE: Action Recognition on TrueNorth

Spike-based action recognition on TrueNorth (both Visual and Tactile)


TACTILE: Force Decoding

Single unit and multi unit recordings of somatosensory response to tactile stimuli


TACTILE: Gesture Recognition on TrueNorth

The objective is to perform real-time recognition of various gestures mimicking the playing of musical instruments. At the end of the workshop, we will have created a new musical instrument!

Neuromorphic Path Planning for Robots in a Disaster Response Scenario

The topic area will focus on neuromorphic solutions for planning and explore how they might be deployed in real-world settings, such as disaster relief.

The illustration above depicts a disaster setting that includes a need to find and help humans, as well as various assets, in a timely manner faced ...

The content below was extracted from wayback machine after Daniel Fasnacht's neuromorphs.net sites became lost. The 2016-2017 content was extracted from iniforum as a backup.

Telluride 2015

Workshop Organizers

Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, JHU/ECE Department

Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETHZ

Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland

Tobi Delbruck, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich

Workshop Staff

Diederik Paul Moeys, INI Zurich

Jie Jack Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

Sergio Davies

shashikant koul, UMD ISR

Workshop Topic Leaders

arindam basu, nanyang technological university

Alain de Cheveign, CNRS / ENS / Universit Paris Descartes

Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University

Christian Huyck, Middlesex University

Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland

Garrick Orchard, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology SINAPSE

John Harris, University of Florida

john arthur, ibm

Malcolm Slaney, Microsoft Conversational Systems Lab and Stanford

Michael Pfeiffer, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH and ETHZ

Ryad Benjamin Benosman, University Pierre and Marie Curie

Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland

Mailinglist to contact topic-leaders, organizers & some staff


Workshop Advisory Board

Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland

Pam White, Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, JHU/ECE Department

Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETHZ

Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland

Tobi Delbruck, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich

This list goes to the organizers and staff people. In case you have any questions regarding the workshop, housing, wiki or anything, send them to this list.


Workshop Participants

Ashley Kleinhans, The University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrew Cassidy, IBM Research

Brandon Carroll, Georgia Tech

Bruno Umbria Pedroni, University of California, San Diego

Carina Graversen, Eriksholm Research Centre - part of Oticon

Yi Chen

Daniel Mendat, Johns Hopkins University

David Reverter Valeiras, Institut de la Vision

Daniel Wong, Laboratoire des Systmes Perceptifs, cole Normale Superieure

Emina Alickovic, Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and I

Bert Shi, EEE/HKUST

Emily Graber, Stanford University, CCRMA

Eric Hunsberger, University of Waterloo

Emre Neftci, UC Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences

Francisco Barranco, University of Maryland / University of Granada

Francisco Cervantes Constantino, University of Maryland, College Park

Fang Wang, National ICT Australia

Guillaume Garreau, Johns Hopkins University/ECE

Giovanny Sanchez-Rivera, INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL

Garrick Orchard, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology SINAPSE

Guido Zarrella, MITRE Corporation

Paul Isaacs, Independent Researcher

Jens Hjortkjr, Technical University of Denmark DTU

Jonathan Tapson, University of Cape Town

Kaitlin Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology Advisor: Dr. David Anderson

Kate Fischl, Johns Hopkins University

Kan Li, University of Florida

Konstantinos Zampogiannis, University of Maryland, College Park

Luca Longinotti, iniLabs Ltd.

Michelle Collins, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Wang, The MARCS institue, University of Western Sydney

Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins

Nima Mesgarani, Columbia University

Peter Diehl, Institute of Neuroinformatics

Philip Tully, KTH Royal Institute of Technology &amp University of Edinburgh

Ritwik Kulkarni, MDX

Rodrigo Alvarez, IBM

Sahar Akram, University of Maryland

Sergio Davies, The University of Manchester

Thomas Lunner, Eriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S

Ulrich Pomper, UCL Ear Institute

Yezhou Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

Yi Zhang, University of Maryland

Zhaokang CHEN, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University

All Workshop People

arindam basu, nanyang technological university

Alain de Cheveign, CNRS / ENS / Universit Paris Descartes

Ashley Kleinhans, The University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University

Andrew Cassidy, IBM Research

Brandon Carroll, Georgia Tech

Bruno Umbria Pedroni, University of California, San Diego

Carina Graversen, Eriksholm Research Centre - part of Oticon

Yi Chen

Christian Huyck, Middlesex University

Diederik Paul Moeys, INI Zurich

Daniel Mendat, Johns Hopkins University

David Reverter Valeiras, Institut de la Vision

David Anderson, Georgia Tech

Daniel Wong, Laboratoire des Systmes Perceptifs, cole Normale Superieure

Emina Alickovic, Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and I

Bert Shi, EEE/HKUST

Emily Graber, Stanford University, CCRMA

Eric Hunsberger, University of Waterloo

Emre Neftci, UC Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences

Francisco Barranco, University of Maryland / University of Granada

Francisco Cervantes Constantino, University of Maryland, College Park

Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland

Fang Wang, National ICT Australia

Guillaume Garreau, Johns Hopkins University/ECE

Giovanny Sanchez-Rivera, INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL

Garrick Orchard, Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology SINAPSE

George Ritmiller, JHU/APL

Guido Zarrella, MITRE Corporation

John Harris, University of Florida

Paul Isaacs, Independent Researcher

john arthur, ibm

John Doyle, Caltech

Jens Hjortkjr, Technical University of Denmark DTU

Jonathan Tapson, University of Cape Town

Jie Jack Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

Kaitlin Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology Advisor: Dr. David Anderson

Kate Fischl, Johns Hopkins University

Kan Li, University of Florida

Konstantinos Zampogiannis, University of Maryland, College Park

Luca Longinotti, iniLabs Ltd.

Lucas Parra, CCNY

Malcolm Slaney, Microsoft Conversational Systems Lab and Stanford

Elizabeth Margulis

Michelle Collins, Georgia Institute of Technology

Maarten De Vos

Mark Wang, The MARCS institue, University of Western Sydney

Nobuhiro Hagura, CiNet, NICT, Japan

Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins

Nima Mesgarani, Columbia University

Peter Diehl, Institute of Neuroinformatics

Peter Hastings, DePaul University

Michael Pfeiffer, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH and ETHZ

Paul Merolla, IBM

Philip Tully, KTH Royal Institute of Technology &amp University of Edinburgh

Pam White, Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

Ryad Benjamin Benosman, University Pierre and Marie Curie

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, JHU/ECE Department

Ritwik Kulkarni, MDX

Rodrigo Alvarez, IBM

Saeed Afshar, University of Western Sydney

Sahar Akram, University of Maryland

Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland

Sergio Davies, The University of Manchester

Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETHZ

Suraj Honnuraiah, Institute of Neuroinformatics

shashikant koul, UMD ISR

Soumyajit Mandal, Case Western Reserve University

Thomas Lunner, Eriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S

Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland

Tobi Delbruck, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH Zurich

Ulrich Pomper, UCL Ear Institute

Yezhou Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

Yi Zhang, University of Maryland

Zhaokang CHEN, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University

Telluride 2014

Main Topic Areas

Human Cognition: Acoustic Priming, Imagination and Attention

Members: Alain de Cheveign, Andreas Andreou, Erik Billing, Chetan Singh Thakur, Daniel Neil, Dorothee Arzounian, David Karpul, Edmund Lalor, Estela Bicho, Greg Cohen, Giovanni Di Liberto, Guillaume Garreau, James OSullivan, John Foxe, Jonathan Tapson, Jessica Thompson, Lakshmi Krishnan, Malcolm Slaney, Marcela Mendoza, Manu Rastogi, Mark Wang, Ernst Niebur, Paul Verschure, Psyche Loui, Daniel Whittet, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sadique Sheik, Stephen Deiss, Shih-Chii Liu, siohoi ieng, Simon Kelly, Tony Lewis, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Victor Benichoux, victor minces, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Andre van Schaik, Xavier Lagorce, Yves Boubenec, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers:: Shihab Shamma (Univ. of Maryland) Malcolm Slaney (Microsoft) Edmund Lalor (Trinity College, Dublin) Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Boston University)

Motion and Action Processing on Wearable Devices

Members: Andreas Andreou, Boris Duran, Luis Camunas, Cheston Tan, Jorg Conradt, Ching Teo, Daniel Neil, David Karpul, Estela Bicho, Francisco Barranco, Cornelia Fermuller, Greg Cohen, Garrick Orchard, Himanshu Akolkar, John Chiasson, Julien Martel, Jamal Molin, Jonathan Tapson, Kayode Sanni, Marcello Mulas, Manu Rastogi, Mark Wang, Michael Pfeiffer, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sadique Sheik, Stephen Deiss, Sergio Davies, Shih-Chii Liu, siohoi ieng, shashikant koul, Timmer Horiuchi, Tony Lewis, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Andre van Schaik, Wang Wei Lee, Xavier Lagorce, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Yezhou Yang

Organizers:: Michael Pfeiffer (INI-UZH) Ryad Benjamin Benosman (UPMC, Paris) Garrick Orchard (NUS, Singapore) Cornelia Fermuller (Univ. of Maryland)

Planning with Dynamic Neural Fields: from Sensorimotor Dynamics to Large-Scale Behavioral

Members: Ashley Kleinhans, Erik Billing, Boris Duran, Chetan Singh Thakur, Jorg Conradt, Daniel Neil, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Francisco Barranco, Cornelia Fermuller, Greg Cohen, Guillaume Garreau, Gregor Schoner, John Chiasson, Jonathan Tapson, Mariel Alfaro Ponce, Manu Rastogi, Mathis Richter, Andrew Mundy, Paul Verschure, Stephen Deiss, Shih-Chii Liu, shashikant koul, Tim C. Pearce, Timmer Horiuchi, Tony Lewis, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Thomas Trappenberg, Terry Stewart, victor minces, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Xavier Lagorce, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Yezhou Yang

Organizers: Yulia Sandamirskaya (RUB, Bochum) Erik Billing (U. Skovde)

Neuromorphic Olympics

Members: Ashley Kleinhans, Anne Collins, Erik Billing, Brandon Kelly, Cheston Tan, Chetan Singh Thakur, Jorg Conradt, Daniel Neil, David Karpul, Diogo Pata, Estela Bicho, Cornelia Fermuller, Greg Cohen, Giovanni Maffei, Himanshu Akolkar, Jasmine Berry, Julien Martel, Jonathan Tapson, Marcello Mulas, Manu Rastogi, Andrew Mundy, Mark Wang, Nicolas Oros, Michael Pfeiffer, Sadique Sheik, Stephen Deiss, Sergio Davies, Shih-Chii Liu, shashikant koul, Timmer Horiuchi, Tobi Delbruck, Thomas Trappenberg, Terry Stewart, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Andre van Schaik, Wang Wei Lee, Xavier Lagorce, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers: Jorg Conradt (TUM) Terry Stewart (University of Waterloo)

Embodied Neuromorphic Real-World Architectures of Perception, Cognition and Action

Members: Andreas Andreou, anna mura, Erik Billing, Brandon Kelly, Boris Duran, Luis Camunas, Jorg Conradt, Daniel Neil, Daniel Mendat, Diogo Pata, Estela Bicho, Greg Cohen, Guillaume Garreau, Giovanni Maffei, Garrick Orchard, Jasmine Berry, Jamal Molin, Jonathan Tapson, Kayode Sanni, Marcela Mendoza, Manu Rastogi, Mathis Richter, Andrew Mundy, Mark Wang, Ernst Niebur, Michael Pfeiffer, Paul Verschure, Sadique Sheik, Stephen Deiss, Sergio Davies, Shih-Chii Liu, shashikant koul, Tim C. Pearce, Timmer Horiuchi, Tony Lewis, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Thomas Trappenberg, Terry Stewart, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Xavier Lagorce, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers: Andreas Andreou (Johns Hopkins University) Paul Verschure (UPF, Barcelona)

Computational Neuroscience Talks

Members: Alain de Cheveign, Ashley Kleinhans, Andreas Andreou, Erik Billing, Cheston Tan, Chetan Singh Thakur, Jorg Conradt, Ching Teo, Daniel Neil, David Karpul, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Cornelia Fermuller, Greg Cohen, Giovanni Di Liberto, Guillaume Garreau, Giovanni Maffei, Julien Martel, Jamal Molin, Jonathan Tapson, Jessica Thompson, Marcela Mendoza, Marcello Mulas, Manu Rastogi, Mathis Richter, Andrew Mundy, Mark Wang, Nicolas Oros, Ernst Niebur, Michael Pfeiffer, Paul Verschure, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sadique Sheik, Stephen Deiss, Shih-Chii Liu, siohoi ieng, shashikant koul, Tim C. Pearce, Timmer Horiuchi, Tony Lewis, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Thomas Trappenberg, Victor Benichoux, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Andre van Schaik, Xavier Lagorce, Yves Boubenec, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Yezhou Yang

Organizer: Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute)

Telluride 2013 

Workgroups

Universal Neuromorphic Devices and Sensors for Real-Time Mobile Robotics

Members: Anahita Mehta, Alejandro Pasciaroni, Jesus Armando Garcia Franco, Bilel Belhadj, Byron Galbraith, Luis Camunas, Cristian Axenie, Christian Denk, Jorg Conradt, Daniel Neil, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Daniel Mendat, Daniel Rasmussen, Bert Shi, Francisco Barranco, Cornelia Fermuller, Greg Cohen, Garrick Orchard, Hector Jesus Cabrera Villaseor, Jonathan Tapson, Amir Khosrowshahi, Laxmi Iyer, Luis Plana, Michael Mathieu, Nicolai Waniek, Omid Kavehei, Michael Pfeiffer, Qian Liu, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Shih-Chii Liu, Evangelos Stromatias, Steve Temple, Timmer Horiuchi, Tobi Delbruck, Will Constable, Xavier Lagorce, Zafeirios Fountas


Organizers: Jorg Conradt (TUM) Francesco Galluppi (University of Manchester) Shih-Chii Liu (University of Zurich, ETH Zurich) Ralph Etienne-Cummings (Johns Hopkins University)

Invitees: Tobi Delbruck (University of Zurich, ETH Zurich) Ryad Benjamin Benosman (UPMC) Ashwin Bellur (Univ. of Texas) Garrick Orchard (SINAPSE institute, Singapore) Luis Camunas (Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, Spain)

Telluride 2012

Main Topic Areas

Learning and Computational Intelligence in Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems

Members: Andreas Andreou, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Christian Brandli, Elisabetta Chicca, Christoph Maier, Jorg Conradt, Daniel B. Fasnacht, Bert Shi, Fabio Stefanini, Frederic Broccard, federico corradi, Gert Cauwenberghs, Giacomo Indiveri, Garrick Orchard, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Jonathan Tapson, Kwabena Boahen, Lakshmi Krishnan, Mehdi Khamassi, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nabil Imam, Nils Peters, Michael Pfeiffer, Jennifer Hasler, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sadique Sheik, Sam Fok, Sergio Davies, Shih-Chii Liu, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Tara Julia Hamilton, Timmer Horiuchi, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Theodore Yu, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers: Gert Cauwenberghs (UCSD) Giacomo Indiveri (Zurich)

Integrating Perception, Cognition, and Action in Neuromorphic Hardware and Software

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Andreas Andreou, Alexander Neckar, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Bryan Tripp, Christian Brandli, Chris Eliasmith, Elisabetta Chicca, Christoph Maier, Jorg Conradt, Bert Shi, federico corradi, Francesco Galluppi, Gert Cauwenberghs, Giacomo Indiveri, Jeffrey Pompe, Jonathan Tapson, Kevin Mazurek, Mehdi Khamassi, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nabil Imam, Michael Pfeiffer, Sadique Sheik, Sam Fok, Sergio Davies, Shih-Chii Liu, Samir Menon, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Timmer Horiuchi, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Theodore Yu, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers: Kwabena Boahen (Standford) Chris Eliasmith (Univ. of Waterloo) Win FREE BEER (check the workgroup page)

Human Attention in the Machine

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Adrian KC Lee, Claire Chamers, Connie Cheung, Diana Sidtis, Edmund Lalor, Inyong Choi, James Wright, Jonathan Brumberg, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Jonathan Tapson, Lakshmi Krishnan, Malcolm Slaney, Mehdi Khamassi, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nima Mesgarani, Nils Peters, Jennifer Hasler, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sahar Akram, Shih-Chii Liu, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Timmer Horiuchi, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Troy Lau, Theodore Yu, Ying-Yee Kong, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers:: Shihab Shamma, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Univ. of Maryland) Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo Research)

Social Neuroscience and Robotic Pet Project

Members: Andreas Andreou, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, Diana Sidtis, Heather Bell, James Bonaiuto, Jongkil Park, Kevin Mazurek, Mehdi Khamassi, Magdalena Kogutowska, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nima Mesgarani, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Pam White, Sahar Akram, Sam Fok, Sergi Bermudez i Badia, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Timmer Horiuchi, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Ulysses Bernardet, Ying-Yee Kong, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizers: Sergi Bermudez i Badia, Ulysses Bernardet (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute)

Computational Neuroscience Talks

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Adrian KC Lee, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Christian Brandli, Connie Cheung, Chris Eliasmith, Elisabetta Chicca, Christoph Maier, Jorg Conradt, Edmund Lalor, Fabio Stefanini, Frederic Broccard, federico corradi, Francesco Galluppi, Giacomo Indiveri, Heather Bell, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Jonathan Tapson, Kevin Mazurek, Kwabena Boahen, Lakshmi Krishnan, Mehdi Khamassi, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nabil Imam, Michael Pfeiffer, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Jennifer Hasler, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sadique Sheik, Sahar Akram, Sam Fok, Sergi Bermudez i Badia, Sergio Davies, Samir Menon, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Theodore Yu, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Organizer: Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Inst.)

Invited Tutorials

Neuromorphic Asynchronous Circuits

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Andreas Andreou, Christian Brandli, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, federico corradi, Gert Cauwenberghs, Giacomo Indiveri, Garrick Orchard, Jongkil Park, Kevin Mazurek, Kwabena Boahen, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Nabil Imam, saber moradi, Shih-Chii Liu, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Tara Julia Hamilton, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Theodore Yu

Leader: Rajit Manohar (Cornell)

Subscribe to this special invited tutorial workgroup to learn and implement neuromorphic VLSI chips with asynchronous digital circuits. We will also provide a tutorial introduction to asynchronous design using state-of-the-art tools for designing asynchronous circuits and do hands-on exercises.

Hands-on Overview of FPAA Chips and Tools

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Christian Brandli, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Sadique Sheik, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Tara Julia Hamilton, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Theodore Yu

Leaders: Jennifer Hasler, Scott Koziol, Univ. of Georgia

Large-Scale Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA) enables a configurable approach to analog and mixed signal approaches typical of digital systems (i.e. FPGAs, uP). Many important aspects of neuromorphic design can be implemented in physical approaches; therefore having such techniques makes these device, circuit, and system approaches accessible to a wider audience. This tutorial will introduce in the theory, chips, boards, and tools over hands-on 2-3 sessions approach. These approaches provide a useful framework for discussing where to use neuromorphic type design approaches in a range of applications. We can also discuss related topics to these approaches, including programmable (floating-gate) circuits, that enable memory, programmable devices, and adaptive devices in a dense, low-power way into our neuromorphic systems.

Silicon Neurons and Noise in Neural Computation

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Andreas Andreou, Christoph Maier, federico corradi, Jonathan Tapson, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Nabil Imam, Sadique Sheik, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Tara Julia Hamilton, Thomas Murray, Theodore Yu

Leader: Tara Julia Hamilton (UNSW)

Subscribe to this tutorial to learn about the evolution of neuron models and silicon neurons. We'll also be discussing the role of noise in neural computation. Join this discussion/tutorial group to make a lot of noise!!

Methods Tutorials

Using SubVersion for projects tutorial

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Adrian KC Lee, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Connie Cheung, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, Edmund Lalor, Heather Bell, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Kevin Mazurek, Lakshmi Krishnan, Magdalena Kogutowska, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Thomas Murray

Leaders: Tobi Delbruck (Zurich), Daniel B. Fasnacht (Zurich)

Subscribe to this group if you will working on any projects and have not used subversion. This is a mandatory tutorial for everyone doing any project who is not a Pro in SVN! This one-session tutorial will show you how to use the incredibly useful  SubVersion for version control, which means sharing code, data, etc in a managed way. What is subversion? Find out here. (We'll be using it in Telluride extensively). Take a look at the work group to pre-install the necessary tools.

Event-based real-time sensory-motor processing

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Christian Brandli, Christoph Maier, Jorg Conradt, Edmund Lalor, Frederic Broccard, Garrick Orchard, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Kwabena Boahen, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nai Ding, Nils Peters, Michael Pfeiffer, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Sahar Akram, Shih-Chii Liu, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Theodore Yu, Yulia Sandamirskaya

Leaders: Christian Brandli, Tobi Delbruck, Zurich

Use real time sensory-motor signal processing of address-event representation sensor output using [ jAER open source software] and hardware for AER, including using a [ silicon retina] and a  silicon cochlea to build fast visual or auditory robots. These sensors will be used in several topic areas at the workshop. In particular we plan this year to explore algorithms for structure from motion from an electronically stabilized DVS and to build a powerful new robotic goalie robot.

Nengo and Large-Scale Neural Modelling

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Christian Brandli, Chris Eliasmith, Elisabetta Chicca, Christoph Maier, federico corradi, Jongkil Park, Jeffrey Pompe, Jonathan Tapson, Kwabena Boahen, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Mathis Richter, Matthew Runchey, Nabil Imam, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Sadique Sheik, Sam Fok, Sergio Davies, Samir Menon, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Timmer Horiuchi, Thomas Murray, Theodore Yu

Leader: Terry Stewart

Nengo is a neural compiler and simulator: a software tool for creating complex neural models. Neural groups are defined by setting their neurophysiological properties and the representational space over which they should be sensitive. Synaptic connections between groups (and recurrent connections) are defined by indicating the computation that should be performed on these representations. Nengo then solves for the required connection weights to achieve this. The resulting models can be simulated within Nengo through an interactive interface, or saved for use elsewhere. This system has been used to model digit recognition, list memory, pattern finding, motor control, visual attention, cognitive control, and planning, producing results consistent with human neurobiology, accuracy, and reaction times. This tutorial will introduce people to this software, showing how to create models using both a drag-and-drop interface and a Python scripting interface.

ABCs of on-chip bias generators

Members: Christoph Maier, federico corradi, Jongkil Park, Magdalena Kogutowska, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Tobi Delbruck, Theodore Yu

Leaders: Tobi Delbruck (Zurich) Bernabe Linares-Barranco (Microelectronics Center, Sevilla)

Provide your chip with a diffuse neural parameter control. Join this 3 or 4 session mostly blackboard and interactive hardware demo tutorial to learn how to build neuromorphic chips that don't require any pots or off-chip analog components and that are temperature voltage and process insensitive with digital control of parameters. Open source design kits make it a lot easier for you to include these critical infrastructure circuits on your chip to make it work in the real world, not just on a nice, stable lab bench.

SMD Soldering Tutorial

Members: Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Christian Brandli, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, federico corradi, Kevin Mazurek, Magdalena Kogutowska, Kent Slaney, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck

Leader: Daniel B. Fasnacht

If you are involved with building printed circuit boards, you may not know how deal with surface mount components. Because of their superiority in automated assembly, impedance characteristics and actual size, surface mounted components are nowadays often the only available package variant. It takes the correct equipment and some practice to hand solder them and to use them in designs. In this tutorial, we will show you how to solder SMD components and what equipment you will need to use these back at home.

USB Bootcamp

Members: Asha Gopinathan, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Christian Brandli, Christoph Maier, Daniel B. Fasnacht, Frederic Broccard, federico corradi, Giacomo Indiveri, Jongkil Park, Kevin Mazurek, Kwabena Boahen, Magdalena Kogutowska, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Sadique Sheik, Kent Slaney, Siddharth Rajaram, Sudarshan Ramenahalli, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Terry Stewart, Theodore Yu

Leader: Daniel B. Fasnacht

Learn how to use USB (Universal Serial Bus - the thing you have on every PC) to interface to neuromorphic chips and actuators. Write your own USB driver, make a robot that uses a silicon retina, write microcontroller firmware for the first time. Unlock the power of combining ubiquitous PC digital computation with your own hardware. This year participants will program and use the AVR32 board that they assemble and we also intend to explore the capabilities of the new Cypress FX3 device that enables developing your own Superspeed devices.

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Telluride 2010

Schedule

Sun, June 27 Welcome reception, BBQ, orientation, history of workshop

Mon, June 28 - Topic areas and projects

Wed, June 30 - Problem of the day: Spike-Based Computation

Thu, July 1 - Problem of the day: Attention and Selection

Fri, July 2 - Problem of the day: Multimodal Sensory Fusion and Self-Organization

Sat, July 3 - Problem of the day: (Spike-Based) Robotics

Morning discussion session - topic (Spike-Based) Robotics

Host: Topic leaders: Jorg Conradt, 'Mark Tilden' (Matthew Runchey not arriving until 2nd week), Invitees: Tara Julia Hamilton 'Tobias Glasmachers' Sergio Davies Blogger: 'Chuck Higgins'

Week 2

Mon, July 5 - Problem of the day: Abuse Shihab Day

Host: Hynek Hermansky

Tue, July 6 - Problem of the day: Sensing: via light, radar, and predicted reward

Host: Terrence Sejnowski

Wed, July 7 - Problem of the day: High level representations and evolution

Host: 'nobody'

Thu, July 8 - Problem of the day: Self organization - in machines and science, with rewards

Fri, July 9 - Problem of the day: Learning and control in machines and humans

Mon, July 12 - Problem of the day: Robotics

Morning discussion session - topic (Spike-Based) Robotics

Hosts: Jorg Conradt, Matthew Runchey

Blogger: Tobi Delbruck

Tue, July 13 - Problem of the day: Open

Wed, July 14 - Problem of the day: Open

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