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@INPROCEEDINGS{Neftci:1033656,
author = {Neftci, Emre and Finkbeiner, Jan Robert and Leroux, Nathan},
title = {{O}nline {T}ransformers with {S}piking {N}eurons for {F}ast
{P}rosthetic {H}and {C}ontrol},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-06528},
year = {2023},
note = {Also published in 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Conference (BioCAS), Electronic ISBN:979-8-3503-0026-0Print
on Demand(PoD) ISBN:979-8-3503-0027-7},
abstract = {Fast and accurate online processing is essential for smooth
prosthetic hand control with Surface Electromyography
signals (sEMG). Although transformers are state-of-the-art
deep learning models in signal processing, the
self-attention mechanism at the core of their operations
requires accumulating data for large time-windows. They are
therefore not suited for online signal processing. In this
paper, we use an attention mechanism with sliding windows
that allows a transformer to process sequences
element-by-element. Moreover, we increase the sparsity of
the network using spiking neurons. We test the model on the
NinaproDB8 finger position regression dataset. Our model
sets its new state-of-the-art in terms of accuracy on
NinaproDB8, while requiring only very short time windows of
3.5 ms at each inference step, and reducing the number of
synaptic operations up to a factor of ×5.3 thanks to the
spiking neurons. Our results hold great promises for
wearable online sEMG processing systems for prosthetic hand
control.},
month = {Oct},
date = {2023-10-19},
organization = {Artificial Intelligence BioMedical
Circuits And Systems For Health,
Toronto (Canada), 19 Oct 2023 - 21 Oct
2023},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {PGI-15},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-15-20210701},
pnm = {5234 - Emerging NC Architectures (POF4-523)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5234},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1033656},
}