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March 2 (Monday)

09:30-Registration
10:00-10:10Opening remarks
Session 1: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI I
10:10-10:40Computational Models of Human Visual Attention Driven by Auditory Cues
Akisato Kimura (Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan)
10:40-11:10Eye-Head Coordination During Viewing with Cognitive Tasks
York Fang (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:10-11:40Algorithms and Architectures for Decoding Polar Codes
Warren J. Gross (McGill University, Canada)
11:40-13:30Lunch meeting
Session 2: Brainware LSI Technologies I
13:30-14:00VLSI Design of Neural Network Model for Local Motion Detection in Motion Stereo Vision
Hisanao Akima (Tohoku University, Japan)
14:00-14:30Scalable Communication Model for Configurable Hardware Architectures of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks
Mireya Zapata (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain)
14:30-15:00Nonvolatile FPGA Platform for Brainware-LSI Emulation
Daisuke Suzuki (Tohoku University, Japan)
15:00-15:20Coffee break
Brainware LSI Technologies II
15:20-15:50An Integrated Reconfigurable Tri-mode DC-DC Converter for Brainware VLSI Power Management
Wai Tung Ng (University of Toronto, Canada)
15:50-16:20Stochastic Computation for Brainware Massively Parallel Vision Chips
Naoya Onizawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
16:20-16:50Toward Understanding the Interlimb Coordination Mechanism Underlying Legged Locomotion
Akio Ishiguro (Tohoku University, Japan)

March 3 (Tuesday)

Session 4: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI II
09:30-10:00The Effect of Utterance Movie of Irrelevant Speech on Serial Recall
Tomoko Ohtani (Tohoku University, Japan)
10:00-10:30Reproducing Individual HRTFs with A Low Channel Count Microphone Array - Current State and Future Research
Matthias Blau (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
10:30-10:50Coffee break
Session 5: Brainware LSI Technologies III
10:50-11:20Variability-Tolerant Convolutional Neural Network for Pattern Recognition Applications based on OxRAM Synapses
Daniele Garbin (CEA-LETI-MINATEC, France)
11:20-11:50Removal of Local Minima from Back Propagation Learning in IDL Model
Yuta Horiuchi (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:50-12:20Efficient Neural Computing using Cellular Array of Magneto-Metallic Neurons
Kaushik Roy (Purdue University, USA)
12:20-12:30Closing remarks