The 4th International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware

News

Dec. 14th: Award is updated.
Dec. 7th: Info about plenary speaker is updated.
Dec. 6th: Time schedule is updated.
Dec. 4th: Info about invited speakers is updated.
Dec. 1st: Time schedule is disclosed.
Nov. 26th: Deadline for poster presentation is extended (due Dec. 1st).
Nov. 16th: Info about invited speakers is updated.
Nov. 14th: Important dates are updated.
Nov. 9th: Info about invited speakers is updated. Important dates are updated.
Nov. 5th: Info about invited speakers is updated.
Oct. 27th: Info about invited speakers is updated.
Oct. 18th: Info about plenary speakers is updated.
Oct. 15th: The website is open.

About symposium

In December 2022, the 4th International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware will be organized by Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology. The aim of the symposium is to provide an opportunity to present and discuss the latest research regarding Neuromorphic AI Hardware.

Date

December 13th (Tuesday), 2022 – December 14th (Wednesday), 2022
Day 1 will start at 12:45 JST (UTC+9).
Day 2 will end at 17:15 JST (UTC+9).

Venue

Hybrid conference (In-person + Virtual via Zoom)

Venue: ART HOTEL Kokura New Tagawa
Address: 3-46 Furusemba-machi, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 802-0082 Japan

How to go to Tanga Station (the closest station to the venue)

Airport → Kokura Station
- From Kitakyushu Airport: 33 minutes via Airport Bus (Nonstop-route)
- From Fukuoka Airport: 6 minutes via Fukuoka City Subway to Hakata Station → 45 minutes via JR to Kokura Station (Limited express)

Kokura Station → Tanga Station
- 2 minutes via Kitakyushu Monorail
- 10 minutes by walk

Please reserve your own accommodation (we will not prepare for participants).
We recommend ART HOTEL Kokura New Tagawa.

Event

– Plenary talk
– Invited talk
– General oral presentation
– Joint session with SAES2022
– Poster session (in-person only)
– Information exchange meeting (in-person only)

Plenary talk

Prof. Atsuki Higashiyama (Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University) The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize Winner!
Time: December 13th 13:05-14:05 JST (UTC+9)
Title: Psychology of Tactile Perception: Review

Invited talk

Prof. James K. Gimzewski (Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles)
Time: December 14th 10:10-10:50 JST (UTC+9)
Title: Nanoscale Neuromorphic Networks and Criticality, A perspective and outlook

Dr. Stephan Henker (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Time: December 14th 14:40-15:20 JST (UTC+9)
Title: European Neuromorphic Programs: From FACETS to Human Brain Project

Dr. Tse-Wei Chen (Lead Engineer, Canon Inc.)
Time: December 14th 16:20-17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Title: Algorithm and Hardware Co-design for Lightweight Neural Networks

Registration

Registration is required to participate in the symposium (even if you are a presenter or a virtual participant) via the following registration button. Only registered persons will receive the Zoom link for the symposium. Registration for in-person participants is due and registration for virtual participants is open until the start of the symposium.

If you would like to cancel the registration, please contact to the secretariat (neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp).

Please pay the registration fee in cash at the venue’s reception.

In-person (Internal member of Neumorph Center *1)10,000 JPY
In-person (External member of Neumorph Center *2)10,000 JPY
In-person (Full)10,000 JPY
In-person (Student)5,000 JPY
Virtual (Internal member of Neumorph Center *1)10,000 JPY
Virtual (External member of Neumorph Center *2)0 JPY
Virtual (Full)0 JPY
Virtual (Student)0 JPY
*1 Internal member of Neumorph Center is a staff working at Kyutech and belonging to Neumorph Center
*2 External member of Neumorph Center is an advisory member of Neumorph Center

Paper submission

We invite the submission of original research contributions relating to neuromorphic AI hardware. Authors willing to present may submit 1-page abstract using the following template via the following submission form by the deadline. The submitted papers will be reviewed by the committee and accepted papers will be assigned either oral presentation or poster presentation.

We still invite the submission for poster presentation until December 1st. Note that only in-person participants can present in the poster presentation. Because the registration form only accepts virtual participants, if you are willing to present and have not registered yet, please register as Virtual and contact us via neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp.

Topics are as follows:
– Material Engineering
– Electric Circuit System
– Computational Model
– Robotics
– Others

Regulation is as follows:
Manuscript must be written in English.
– Manuscript must be one page of A4.
– Top, bottom, left, and right margins must be 35.01mm, 30mm, 30mm, and 30mm, respectively.
– Font must be Times New Roman.
– Font size of title must be 14pt (bold).
– Font size of authors must be 12pt.
– Font size of other areas must be 10pt.
– Line spacing must be one line.
– Title, authors, and affiliations must be included.
– Acknowledgment and references can be included.
– Figures and tables can be included.
– Manuscript must be a PDF smaller than 1MB.

Please use the following template (MS Word) for the manuscript.

Important dates

Deadline for registration (In-person)November 24th, 2022, 23:59 JST (UTC+9)
Deadline for registration (Virtual)December 14th, 2022, 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Deadline for paper submissionNovember 17th 24th, 2022, 23:59 JST (UTC+9)
Notification of acceptanceNovember 24th 26th, 2022
Deadline for paper submission (only poster presentation)December 1st, 2022, 23:59 JST (UTC+9)
Deadline for resubmission for review commentDecember 1st, 2022, 23:59 JST (UTC+9)
Deadline for poster data uploadDecember 8th, 2022, 23:59 JST (UTC+9)

Presentation instruction

Please present in English. Presentation time will be notified in the e-mail of notification of acceptance.

Oral presentation (In-person)
Please prepare a computer compatible with HDMI output. The computer will be connected to a streaming device via HDMI cable and your slide show will be broadcasted to a venue screen and Zoom (therefore, in-person presenters do not need to install Zoom client on the computer).

Please avoid using optical laser pointers because the pointer will not be broadcasted to Zoom. Please use software laser pointer functions (e.g. laser pointer of MS PowerPoint) instead of them. We will also prepare Logicool SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION REMOTE (driver installation is required).

Oral presentation (Virtual)
Please prepare a computer compatible with Zoom. Your slide show, video, and voice will be broadcasted to the venue and Zoom. Therefore, virtual presenters need to install Zoom client on the computer.

Poster presentation (In-person only)
Please prepare a poster of A0 size (vertical orientation). Posters will be pinned by thumbtacks (the committee will prepare).

Poster presenters only who agree with their posters are distributed to virtual participants will submit their poster data (PDF).

Award

The Best Student Presentation Award

  • Katsunori Tamai (Kyutech), “Performance Evaluation of a Reservoir Reinforcement Learning Model Considering Nonlinear Write Characteristics of Analog Memory”

Student Presentation Awards

  • Keiichi Nakanishi (Kyutech), “Distribution-Free Semi-Supervised Cost Function with a Class-Prior Probability”
  • Ikuya Matsumoto (Kyutech), “Proposal of Robust Multimodal Learning Model for Object Classification”
  • Naruki Hagiwara (Hokkaido Univ.), “3D Conductive Polymer Wiring Synapses for Neuromorphic Wetware”
  • Kouki Kimizuka (Kyutech), “Weight and position detection by reservoir inspired in-sensor computing device made of CNT-PDMS nanocomposites”
  • Yuka Shishido (Kyutech), “CMOS VLSI implementation of a hippocampal conjunctive place-cue cells network”
  • Akinobu Mizutani (Kyutech), “Hardware-oriented Brain-inspired Model with Memory Accumulation and Recall Functions to Generate Actions of Home Service Robots”
  • Yuga Yano (Kyutech), “A Visualization System of Personal Characteristics for Human-Robot Interaction in RoboCup@Home”

Committee

Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Osamu Nomura (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuki Usami (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuichiro Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

Secretariat: neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp

The 3rd International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware

概要

2022年3月,第3回ニューロモルフィックAIハードウェア国際シンポジウムを開催します.本シンポジウムはニューロモルフィックAIハードウェアに関する最新の研究成果を発表・議論する機会を提供することを目的としています.

日時

2022年3月18日(金)〜 2022年3月19日(土)
終了しました

場所・アクセス

ハイブリッド開催(現地+オンライン)

会場:プレミアホテル門司港
〒801-8503 福岡県北九州市門司区港町9番11号

イベント

本シンポジウムでは下記のイベントを執り行いました.
タイムスケジュール

・プレナリー講演
・招待講演
・口頭発表
・ポスターセッション(現地のみ)
・九州工業大学 森江隆 教授 退職記念講演(日本語)
・電気通信大学 阪口豊 教授 レクチャートーク(日本語)
・情報交換会(現地のみ)

プレナリー講演

3/19 15:45-16:45(日本時間)
講演者:Daniele Ielmini 教授(イタリア ミラノ工科大学)
題目:In-memory computing for neuromorphic engineering by device physics

招待講演

3/18 15:45-16:30(日本時間)
講演者:Jordi Madrenas 教授(スペイン カタルーニャ工科大学)
題目:Implementing hardware for spiking neural network emulation: architectures, development tools and examples.

3/19 9:30-10:15(日本時間)
講演者:山本 英明 准教授(東北大学)
題目:Artificial reconstitution of neuronal network functions with living cells

3/19 10:15-11:00(日本時間)
講演者:浅井哲也 教授(北海道大学)
題目:Re-Pioneering Stochastic Computing towards Edge-AI Devices with Inference and Learning Abilities

3/19 15:00-15:45(日本時間)
講演者:Konrad Szacitowski 教授(ポーランド AGH大学)
題目:Reservoir computing for acoustic-frequency signal processing

森江隆 教授 退職記念講演(日本語)

3/18 16:30-17:30(日本時間)
講演者:森江隆 教授(九州工業大学)
題目:物理現象によって実現される知能を目指して

レクチャートーク(日本語)

3/19 14:00-14:45(日本時間)
講演者:阪口豊 教授(電気通信大学)
題目:脳の自由エネルギー原理

参加登録

参加受付は終了しました

参加費

現地参加(招待講演者)無料
現地参加(学内センターメンバー※1)10,000円
現地参加(学外センターメンバー※2)10,000円
現地参加(一般)10,000円
現地参加(学生)5,000円
オンライン参加(招待講演者)無料
オンライン参加(学内センターメンバー※1)10,000円
オンライン参加(学外センターメンバー※2)無料
オンライン参加(一般)無料
オンライン参加(学生)無料

※1 学内センターメンバーとは当センターに所属する九州工業大学の教職員を指します
※2 学外センターメンバーとは当センターに登録されている外部委員を指します

発表募集

発表募集の受付は終了しました

締切

登録締切(現地参加の場合)2022年2月15日 2022年3月7日
投稿締切2022年2月15日 2022年3月7日
採択通知予定日2022年2月28日
査読による修正期限2022年3月7日
ポスター提出締切2022年3月15日

表彰

The Best Student Presentation Award

  • Oradee Srikimkaew (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “Short-Term and Long-Term Plasticity of Pt/Ag-Ag2S Nanoparticles Network/Pt Artificial Synapses”

Student Presentation Award

  • Daiki Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “Simultaneous Meta-modeling of Dynamics and Kinematics based on the Hierarchical Manifold Modeling”
  • Akinobu Mizutani (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “Memory-based Action Planning Inspired by Hippocampal Replay”
  • Takumi Kotooka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “Performance comparison of Ag2S and Ag2Se nanowire random network devices as physical reservoirs”
  • Yuga Yano (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “Image Enhancement for Improving the Accuracy of Visual SLAM in Backlit Scenes”
  • Yuka Shishido (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
    “A Co-Design Environment for AI Hardware Simulation Using PyLTSpice”

写真コーナー

登録者限定でシンポジウム中に撮影した写真を公開しています.閲覧にはパスワードが必要です.パスワードは登録者に送付したシンポジウムのZoomのパスワードと同様です.

運営委員

田中 啓文(九州工業大学)
田向 権(九州工業大学)
野村 修(九州工業大学)
石橋 英朗(九州工業大学)
宇佐美 雄生(九州工業大学)
田中 悠一朗(九州工業大学)

事務局:neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp

The 5th Neumorph Seminar

The 5th Neumorph Seminar was held online on June 24, 2021.

Dr. Takao Marukame from Toshiba gave a lecture on “Brain-type hardware and R&D trends of neuromorphic devices.”

[Announcement] The 4th Neumorph Seminar

We invite Dr. Takeshi Nishida from KiQ Robotics Corp. and hold the 4th Neumorph seminar.

  • Date and Time: 30th April 2021 at 1PM (JST)
  • Title: Reversible Automation -AI and robots for multi-production-
  • Holding method: Online (Zoom)

Pre-registration is required to attend this seminar. Please fill out the following registration form with the required information (email address, name, and affiliation) to participate in the seminar. The ID and password of the zoom meeting will be shown after you push the [submit] button. Please WRITE DOWN THESE ID AND PASSWORD to attend the seminar.

(事前登録の受け付けは終了いたしました。)

The 3rd Neumorph Seminar

The 3rd Neumorph Seminar was held online on March 24, 2021.

Dr. Shigeki Sakai from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology gave a lecture on Basics and Applications of Transistor Type Ferroelectric Random Access Memory.

His lecture was important for the realization of neuromorphic AI hardware. We had a lively discussion in the Q&A session.

[Announcement] The 3rd Neumorph Seminar

We invite Dr. Shigeki Sakai from AIST and hold the 3rd Neumorph seminar.

  • Date and Time: 24th March, 2021 11 am (JST)
  • Title: Basics and Applications of Transistor Type Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
  • Holding Method: Online (Zoom)

Pre-registration is required to attend this seminar. Please fill out the following registration form with the required information (email address, name, and affiliation) to participate in the seminar. The ID and password of the zoom meeting will be shown after you push the [submit] button. Please WRITE DOWN THESE ID AND PASSWORD to attend the seminar.

(The registration form has been closed.)

[Accouncement] The Kick-off Symposium on Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware

We will have an online kick-off symposium on Neumorph Center.

  • Date and Time: Dec. 7, 2020 2 pm-5 pm (JST)
  • Holding Method: Online (Zoom)

Pre-registration is required to attend this symposium. Please fill out the following registration form with the required information (email address, name, and affiliation) to participate in the symposium. The Zoom information will be sent to your email address.

(The registration form has been closed.)

The Brochure is available here (in PDF)

Schedule

Part 1: Opening Ceremony

14:00-14:10Message from
University
Yasunori Mitani
Kyushu Institute of Technology
14:10-14:25 Opening remark Hirofumi Tanaka
Kyushu Institute of Technology
14:25-14:35Congratulatory
message
Morio Matsunaga
FAIS
14:35-14:45Congratulatory
message
Takeshi Yamakawa
Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute

part 2: The 2nd International Symposium on Neuromorphic AI Hardware

14:50-15:50 Invited talk 1
“Brainmorphic computing paradigm and hardware”
Prof. Yoshihiko Horio (Tohoku University)
Chair: Hakaru Tamukoh
15:50-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Invited talk 2
“Material Learning in Disordered Nanomaterial Networks”
Prof. Wilfred G. van der Wiel (University of Twente, International advisory board of Neumorph center)
Chair: Yuki Usami
17:00- Closing remark
Photo session

You can join both part 1 and part 2 from the same Zoom link.

This symposium will be held on Zoom.
https://zoom.us/

Should you have questions, please contact to:
usami[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp (Dr. Usami)
* Please replace [at] with @.