Braille Letter Reading: A Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition on Neuromorphic Hardware

Understand

Spatio-temporal pattern recognition is a fundamental ability of the brain which is required for numerous real-world activities.

• Recent deep learning approaches have reached outstanding accuracies in such tasks, but their implementation on conventional embedded solutions is still very computationally and energy expensive.
• Tactile sensing in robotic applications is a representative example where real-time processing and energy efficiency are required.
• Following a brain-inspired computing approach, we propose a new benchmark for spatio-temporal tactile pattern recognition at the edge through Braille letter reading.