Accurate and Efficient LIF-Nets for 3D Detection and Recognition

Yueting Shi, Hai Li, Hehui Zhang, Zhenzhi Wu, Shiwei Ren*

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Abstract

3D object detection and recognition are crucial tasks for many spatiotemporal processing applications, such as computer-aided diagnosis and autonomous driving. Although prevalent 3D Convolution Nets (ConvNets) have continued to improve the accuracy and sensitivity, excessive computing resources are required. In this paper, we propose Leaky Integrate and Fire Networks (LIF-Nets) for 3D detection and recognition tasks. LIF-Nets have rich inter-frame sensing capability brought from membrane potentials, and low power event-driven mechanism, which make them excel in 3D processing and save computational cost at the same time. We also develop ResLIF Blocks to solve the degradation problem of deep LIF-Nets, and employ U-LIF structure to improve the feature representation capability. As a result, we carry out experiments on the LUng Nodule Analysis 2016 (LUNA16) public dataset for chest CT automated analysis and conclude that the LIF-Nets achieve 94.6% detection sensitivity at 8 False Positives per scan and 94.14% classification accuracy while the LIF-detection net reduces 65.45% multiplication operations, 65.12% addition operations, and 65.32% network parameters. The results show that LIF-Nets have extraordinary time-efficient and energy-saving performance while achieving comparable accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9097201
Pages (from-to)98562-98571
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Access
Volume8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • 3D detection
  • 3D recognition
  • Spiking neural network
  • leaky integrate and fire model
  • pulmonary nodule screening

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