Stochastic Resonance and Finite Resolution in a Network of Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons

  • Authors:
  • Nhamo Mtetwa;Leslie S. Smith;Amir Hussain

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper discusses the effect of stochastic resonance in a network of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons and investigates its realisation on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). We report in this study that stochastic resonance which is mainly associated with floating point implementations is possible in both a single LIF neuron and a network of LIF neurons implemented on lower resolution integer based digital hardware. We also report that such a network can improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the output over a single LIF neuron.