PROGRAM

March 1 (Friday)


12:30-Registration
13:00-13:05Opening remarks
Session 1: Special Session on Brain-like Integrated System
13:05-13:30Brain-Like Integrated System Using Thin-Film Devices
Mutsumi Kimura (Ryukoku University, Japan)
13:30-13:55Research on New Member of Amorphous and Crystalline Oxide Family, Mayenite Electride, 12CaO.7Al2O3, in Energy Producing Devices and Its Application of the Neuromorphic Systems
Karim Khan (Shenzhen University / Ningbo institute of material technology and engineering, China)
13:55-14:20Analog Approximate Computing
Renyuan Zhang (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
14:20-14:45Artificial Neural Network Computation Based on Coupled Nano-Scale Oscillators
Hiroko Arai (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
14:45-15:00Coffee break
Session 2: Brainware LSI Technologies I
15:00-15:25MTJ-Based Nonvolatile Logic Gates for Quantized Neural Network Hardware
Masanori Natsui, Tomoki Chiba, and Takahiro Hanyu (Tohoku University, Japan)
15:25-15:50An Analog MOS Circuit of the Izhikevich Neuron Model
Shigeo Sato, Yuuki Tamura, Satoshi Moriya, Tatsuki Kato, Masao Sakuraba, Yoshihiko Horio (Tohoku University, Japan)
15:50-16:15MTJ-Based Nonvolatile FPGA and Its Prospects for Brainware LSI Platform
Daisuke Suzuki and Takahiro Hanyu (Tohoku University, Japan)
16:15-16:30Coffee break
Session 3: Recognition & Learning I
16:30-16:55Computational Models of the Auditory Brain
Cesar D. Salvador†, Ryo Teraoka†, Yi-Wen Liu††, Mika Sato†††, Andrej Kral†††, and Shuichi Sakamoto† († Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan, ††Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, †††Institute of AudioNeuroTechnology and Department of Experimental Otology, ENT Clinics, Hannover Medical School, Germany)
16:55-17:20"ConceFT -- A Nonlinear Signal Representation Technique, and Examples of Analyzing Otoacoustic Emissions"
Yi-Wen Liu†, Hau-Tieng Wu†† (†National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ††Duke University, USA)
17:20-17:45Bacteriaware – Interfacing Bacteria Using Electricity
Munehiro Asally (University of Warwick, UK)

March 2 (Saturday)


Session 4: Recognition & Learning II
09:00-09:25Visual Stability and Eye Movements
Syuhei Takano†, Kazumichi Matsumiya†, Chia-fuei Tseng†, Ichiro Kuriki†, Heiner Deubel††, Satoshi Shioiri† (†Tohoku University, Japan, ††Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
09:25-09:50Decentralized Control Mechanism Underlying Behavioral Switching in Centipede Locomotion
Kotaro Yasui (Tohoku University, Japan)
09:50-10:15Activity of Primate V1 Neurons During Visually-Guided Saccade Tasks
Choongkil Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
10:15-10:30Coffee break
Session 5: Brainware LSI Technologies II
10:30-10:55Pruned Single Class Deep Convolutional Detectors
Martin Lukac (School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
10:55-11:20Efficient CMOS Invertible Logic Using Stochastic Computing
Naoya Onizawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:20-11:45Brainmorphic Computing Hardware through High-Dimensional Complex Dynamics
Yoshihiko Horio (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:45-11:50Closing remarks