Call for Participation:
2nd European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems (EWNS2)
3-5 September 1999, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Neuromorphic systems are implementations in silicon of sensory and neural
systems whose architecture and design are based on neurobiology. The area is at the intersection of many disciplines:
neurophysiology, computer science and electrical engineering.
Registration Forms and Further Information are available from the WWW page
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/EWNS2
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Provisional Programme
Friday September 3
0900-1030: Registration and Coffee
1030-1115: Pedro Marijuan, Dept. Ingen. Electronica y Comunicaciones, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain: From Darwin to Cajal: The Quest for a Neurodynamic Optimization Principle
Session 1: General Papers
1115-1145: Babara Webb, University of Stirling: A Framework for Models of Biological Behaviour
1145-1215: Catherine Breslin and Leslie Smith, University of Stirling: Silicon Cellular Morphology
1215-1245: J Love, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida USA and K M Johnson National Research Council, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida USA: Towards Evolvable Neuromorphic Ststems: Adaptive Ontogenetic Engineering of Artificial Sensorineural Vestibular Organs
1245-1400: Lunch
Session 2: Auditory I
1400-1445 Simon Jones, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Loughborough, England: (title to be announced)
1445-1515: Mete Erturk, C P Brown, D J Klein and S A Shamma, Institute for Systems Research and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, USA: A Neuromorphic Approach to the Analysis of Monaural and Binaural auditory Signals
1515-1545: Amir Hussain and Douglas R Campbell, Dept of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland: Speech Intelligibility - Improvements Using a Binaural Adaptive-Shceme Based Conceptually on the Human-Auditory System
1545-1610: Tea
Session 3: Vision I
1610-1640 Tobi Delbruk, Institute for Neuronformatics, Zurich, Switzerland: Three Silicon Retinas for Simple Consumer Applications
1640-1710 Seiji Kameda, Akira Honda, Tetsuya Yagi, Faculty of Computer Science and Ststems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan: Real Time Image Processing with an Analog Vision Chip System
1930 Wine and Cheese Reception in the Atrium
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Saturday September 4
Session 4: Auditory II
0900-0945: Andre van Schaik, Craig Jin and Simon Carlile, University of Sydney, Australia: Human Localisation of Band-Pass Filtered Noise
0945-1015: Amir Hussain, Dept of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland: Binaural Neural-Network Based Sub-Band Processing of Noisy Speech Signals
1015-1045: Sofia Cavaco, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and John Hallam, University of Edinburgh: A Biologically Plausible Acoustic Motion Detection System for a Robotic Cat
1045-1115: Coffee
Session 5: Vision II
1115-1145: E Ros, F J Pelayo, D Palomar, I Rojas, J L Bernier and A Prieto, Dept of Architecture and Tecnology of Computers, University of Granada, Spain: Stimulus correlation and Adaptive Local Motion Detection
1145-1215: Reid R Harrison and Christof Koch, Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, USA: An Analog VLSI Implementation of a Visual Interneuron: Enhanced Sensory Processing through Biophysical Modelling
1215-1245: R Timothy Edwards, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland, USA: Acoustic Transient Classification with a Template Correlation Processor
1245-1400: Lunch
1400-1445 Avis Cohen, Dept of Biology and Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, USA: (title to be announced)
Session 6: Robotics
1445-1515 Timothy Chapman and Babara Webb, University of Stirling: A Neuromorphic Hair Sensor Model of Wind-Mediated Escape in the Cricket
1515-1545: R Mudra, R Hahnloser and R J Douglas, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland: Integrating neuromorphic action-oriented perceptual inputs to generate a navigation behaviour for a robot
1545-1615 Coffee
1615-1645 Mark Blanchard, P F M J Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland and F C Rind, Dept of Neurobilogy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Using Mobile Robots to Study Locust Collision Avoidance Responses
1645-1715 Ralf Moller, Dept of Computer Science and Dept of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland: Visual Homing in Analog Hardware
1915: Conference Dinner
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Sunday September 5
Session 7 Hardware
1000-1045: Shii Chii: Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland: (title to be announced)
1045-1115: Peter Paschke and Carsten Schauer, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany: A Spike-Based Model of Binaural Sound Localization
1115-1145: Cyprian Grassmann and Joachim K Anlauf, University of Bonn, Germany: Fast Digital Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Integration with SPIKELAB
1145-1215: B E Eriksson, L S Smith, University of Stirling, M Glover, DERA, A Hamilton, University of Edinburgh, Scotland: SPIKE II: An integrate-and-fire aVLSI chip.
1215-1315: Lunch
1315-1345: Best Paper Prize
1345-1500: Panel Discussion: Neuromorphic Systems - The Ways Forward
Presentation on EPSRC Silicon and Neurobiology Network (L.S. Smith)
1500: Tea and Close of Conference
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.