Multichannel time encoding with integrate-and-fire neurons

  • Authors:
  • Aurel A. Lazar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 500 West, 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Time encoding is a mechanism of mapping amplitude information into a time sequence. We show that multichannel time encoding using filter banks and integrate-and-fire neurons provides, under natural conditions, an invertible representation of information, i.e., a sensory stimulus can be recovered from its multidimensional spike train representation loss-free. We describe an algorithm for perfect stimulus recovery and derive conditions that guarantee its convergence.