Dr. Tobi Delbruck, a scientist at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), conducted a technical seminar on 29th May 2009. The co-inventor of the standard neuromorphic adaptive photoreceptor circuit and bump circuit was invited to IME to speaks on “Fast and Cheap Digital Vision and Audition with Spike-based Silicon Retinas and Cochleas.”
Dr. Delbruck gave an in-depth description on how the nervous system communicates with asynchronous digital spikes as well as the functions of the biological sensors which remove input redundancy and generate output spikes. In the talk, Dr. Delbruck gave live demonstrations of the recently developed spike-based silicon retinas and cochleas and explains how the digital spike outputs can be combined with conventional digital post processing to solve problems such as auditory localization, object tracking, and high speed robotics.
The audience was also given live demonstration of the world's first pencil balancing robot that balances a pencil using two spike-based vision sensors.
 
Dr. Tobi Delbruck giving a live demonstration of the world's first pencil balancing robot
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