In October 2024, the “Workshop on Neuromorphic In-Material Computation” will be held in San Gimignano, Italy (organized by Professor Takuya Matsumoto, Osaka University). This workshop will cover the forefront of neuromorphic in-material computation, spanning multiple fields including physics, chemistry, materials science, electronics, and information science. We look forward to your participation.

The Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware is co-sponsoring this workshop.

Date: October 28-30, 2024

Venue: Villasanpaolo Resort Spa, San Gimignano, Italy

For more information and registration, please visit the link below:

https://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~neuro/site/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2nd　Circular3.pdf

News

Nov 8th: The registration is closed.
Nov 1st: The registration deadline has been extended.
Oct 20th: The schedule is updated.
Oct 19th: Company Tour is updated.
Oct 11th: The schedule is updated.
Sep 13th: The registration form is open.
Sep 12th: The website is open.

About Symposium

In November 2023, Core-to-Core Satellite Symposium of MNC 2023 – Materials Meet Robots 2023 – will be organized by Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology. This symposium is a satellite symposium of 36th International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2023). The aim of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for discussion with researchers of material science and robotics and to make new ideas for research collaborations.

Date

November 20th (Monday) – 21st (Tuesday), 2023
Day 1: 13:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Day 2: 10:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)

Event

Lecture

Day 1 13:30-14:10 Invited talk by Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Waseda University)
Title: TBA

Day 1 14:00-14:30 Invited talk2 (TBA)
Title: TBA

Ideathon

The aim of this ideathon is to come up with new ideas for research collaborations of material science and robotics. Several teams including researchers/students of material science and robotics will be organized, discuss some ideas, and give presentations of the ideas. The presentation will be evaluated and the winner will get an extra prize.

Day 1 15:00-15:10: Introduction
Day 1 15:10-15:30: Team building
Day 1 15:30-: Discussion
Day 2 09:00-11:00: Presentation
Day 2 13:00-13:30: Award ceremony

Robot Demonstration

Participants have lunch while watching a robot working as a waiter at a real restaurant. The other robot with a material-based sensor is presented. These robots are presented by Hibikino-Musashi@Home, which is a robot developing team of Kyushu Institute of Technology.

Day 2 11:00-13:00

Company Tour

Participants will visit TOTO Meusium by bus.

Day 2 15:00-16:00

Venue

Venue: Conference Center of Kitakyushu Science and Research Park
Address: 2-3 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0135, Japan

How to go to the venue

From Fukuoka Airport
1. 6 minutes via Fukuoka City Subway to Hakata Station
2. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express)
3. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue

From Kitakyushu Airport
1. 78 minutes via Airport Bus to Gakken Hibikino

From Hakata Station
1. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express)
2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue

From Kokura Station
1. 25 minutes via JR to Orio Station
2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue

Registration

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

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

Important dates

Committee

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

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

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 15th (Thursday), 2022
Day 1 will start at 12:45 JST (UTC+9).
Day 3 will end at 12:00 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.

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

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

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

※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

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