We have developed CARLsim 4, a user-friendly SNN library written in C++ that can simulate large biologically detailed neural networks. Improving on the efficiency and scalability of earlier releases, the present release allows for the simulation using multiple GPUs and multiple CPU cores concurrently in a heterogeneous computing cluster. …
Topic: computational models
Research Projects
CARLsim 4: An open source library for large scale, biologically detailed spiking neural network simulation using heterogeneous clusters
Ting-Shou Chou, Hirak J. Kashyap, Jinwei Xing, Stanislav Listopad, Emily L. Rounds, Michael Beyeler, Nikil Dutt, Jeffrey L. Krichmar Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
CARLsim 3: A user-friendly and highly optimized library for the creation of neurobiologically detailed spiking neural networks
We have developed CARLsim 3, a user-friendly, GPU-accelerated SNN library written in C/C++ that is capable of simulating biologically detailed neural models. The present release of CARLsim provides a number of improvements over our prior SNN library to allow the user to easily analyze simulation data, explore synaptic plasticity rules, and automate …
Michael Beyeler, Kristofor D. Carlson, Ting-Shou Chou, Nikil Dutt, Jeffrey L. Krichmar Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Vision-based robust road lane detection in urban environments
This paper presents an integrative approach to ego-lane detection that aims to be as simple as possible to enable real-time computation while being able to adapt to a variety of urban and rural traffic scenarios. The approach at hand combines and extends a road segmentation method in an illumination-invariant color image, lane markings detection …
Michael Beyeler, Florian Mirus, Alexander Verl Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Categorization and decision-making in a neurobiologically plausible spiking network using a STDP-like plasticity rule
We present a large-scale model of a hierarchical spiking neural network (SNN) that integrates a low-level memory encoding mechanism with a higher-level decision process to perform a visual classification task in real-time. The model consists of Izhikevich neurons and conductance-based synapses for realistic approximation of neuronal dynamics, a …
Michael Beyeler, Nikil Dutt, Jeffrey L. Krichmar Neural Networks 48:109-124