A bee-inspired multisensory spiking neuron with Humid-Visual fused perception for authenticity recognition

Keyuan Pan, Chen Chen, Xiujuan Li, Duoyi Zhu, Kang Chen, Kaili Wang, Xinkai Qian, Xuemei Dong, Min Xu, Hongchao Sun, Zifan Li, Fei Xiu, Zhe Zhou, Wei Huang, Juqing Liu

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Abstract

Multisensory fusion allow artificial neurons to capture and process abundant signals for perceptual enhancement. Apart from the extensively studied visual-tactile fusion, reports on visual-humid perception remains a challenge, which plays a crucial role for living organism in activities such as foraging, weather detection and locating water source. Here we demonstrate a bee-inspired multisensory spiking neuron (MSN) that comprise a capacitive humidity synapse, a resistive photodetector and a threshold- switching memristor. The MSN encodes visual and humidity inputs into a sequence of spike events, mimicking the quintessential function of a bio-neuron, including action potential, threshold-driven spiking, refractory period, and intensity-modulated spike- frequency. The fused spikes can distinguish between humidity and visual signals by decoupling the output frequencies and amplitudes. Simulation results depict that the cross-modal sensing approach achieves a heightened accuracy (96.67%) in object recognition for verifying flower authenticity. This research opens up a new avenue for constructing humid-visual spiking neurons to advance multisensory perception and intelligent recognition capabilities.

Original languageEnglish
Article number162479
JournalChemical Engineering Journal
Volume512
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2025

Keywords

  • Authenticity identification
  • Capacitive humidity synapse
  • Cross-modal perception
  • Multisensory spiking neuron
  • Visual-humidity signals

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