March 2-3, 2015 |
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |

PROGRAM
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March 2 (Monday)
09:30- | Registration | |
10:00-10:10 | Opening remarks | |
Session 1: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI I | ||
10:10-10:40 | Computational Models of Human Visual Attention Driven by Auditory Cues Akisato Kimura (Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan) | |
10:40-11:10 | Eye-Head Coordination During Viewing with Cognitive Tasks York Fang (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
11:10-11:40 | Algorithms and Architectures for Decoding Polar Codes Warren J. Gross (McGill University, Canada) | |
11:40-13:30 | Lunch meeting | |
Session 2: Brainware LSI Technologies I | ||
13:30-14:00 | VLSI Design of Neural Network Model for Local Motion Detection in Motion Stereo Vision Hisanao Akima (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
14:00-14:30 | Scalable Communication Model for Configurable Hardware Architectures of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks Mireya Zapata (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain) | |
14:30-15:00 | Nonvolatile FPGA Platform for Brainware-LSI Emulation Daisuke Suzuki (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
Brainware LSI Technologies II | ||
15:20-15:50 | An Integrated Reconfigurable Tri-mode DC-DC Converter for Brainware VLSI Power Management Wai Tung Ng (University of Toronto, Canada) | |
15:50-16:20 | Stochastic Computation for Brainware Massively Parallel Vision Chips Naoya Onizawa (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
16:20-16:50 | Toward Understanding the Interlimb Coordination Mechanism Underlying Legged Locomotion Akio Ishiguro (Tohoku University, Japan) |
March 3 (Tuesday)
Session 4: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI II | ||
09:30-10:00 | The Effect of Utterance Movie of Irrelevant Speech on Serial Recall Tomoko Ohtani (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
10:00-10:30 | Reproducing Individual HRTFs with A Low Channel Count Microphone Array - Current State and Future Research Matthias Blau (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany) | |
10:30-10:50 | Coffee break | |
Session 5: Brainware LSI Technologies III | ||
10:50-11:20 | Variability-Tolerant Convolutional Neural Network for Pattern Recognition Applications based on OxRAM Synapses Daniele Garbin (CEA-LETI-MINATEC, France) | |
11:20-11:50 | Removal of Local Minima from Back Propagation Learning in IDL Model Yuta Horiuchi (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
11:50-12:20 | Efficient Neural Computing using Cellular Array of Magneto-Metallic Neurons Kaushik Roy (Purdue University, USA) | |
12:20-12:30 | Closing remarks |