Frequency Matching in Spiking Neural Networks for mmWave Sensing
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| author | Yu, Di Liao, Zhenyu Lv, Changze Tong, Wentao Jiang, Linshan Ji, Sijie Du, Xin Zhao, Hailiang Zheng, Xiaoqing Deng, Shuiguang |
| author_facet | Yu, Di Liao, Zhenyu Lv, Changze Tong, Wentao Jiang, Linshan Ji, Sijie Du, Xin Zhao, Hailiang Zheng, Xiaoqing Deng, Shuiguang |
| contents | Millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensing enables privacy-preserving, always-on edge perception, but its measurements are often sparse, temporally irregular, and corrupted by high-frequency noise. Existing mmWave pipelines predominantly rely on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which achieve robustness through extensive preprocessing or deep architectures, thereby limiting their efficiency on edge devices. In this work, we study spiking neural networks (SNNs) for mmWave sensing from a mechanism-data alignment perspective. By leveraging the low-pass filtering behavior of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) dynamics, we analyze how their implicit temporal filtering interacts with the frequency structure of mmWave signals. Our analysis shows that when discriminative information resides in low-to-mid frequencies, LIF dynamics can inherently suppress high-frequency noise, clarifying when and why SNNs outperform ANNs. Based on this insight, we derive a principled criterion for configuring the membrane decay factor by matching the effective bandwidth of LIF dynamics to the data's discriminative spectral content. Experimental results across four widely used mmWave datasets validate the proposed frequency-matching hypothesis, yielding an average test-accuracy improvement of 6.22% and a 3.64$\times$ reduction in theoretical energy consumption relative to ANN baselines, under a unified evaluation protocol. |
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| spellingShingle | Frequency Matching in Spiking Neural Networks for mmWave Sensing Yu, Di Liao, Zhenyu Lv, Changze Tong, Wentao Jiang, Linshan Ji, Sijie Du, Xin Zhao, Hailiang Zheng, Xiaoqing Deng, Shuiguang Neural and Evolutionary Computing Millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensing enables privacy-preserving, always-on edge perception, but its measurements are often sparse, temporally irregular, and corrupted by high-frequency noise. Existing mmWave pipelines predominantly rely on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which achieve robustness through extensive preprocessing or deep architectures, thereby limiting their efficiency on edge devices. In this work, we study spiking neural networks (SNNs) for mmWave sensing from a mechanism-data alignment perspective. By leveraging the low-pass filtering behavior of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) dynamics, we analyze how their implicit temporal filtering interacts with the frequency structure of mmWave signals. Our analysis shows that when discriminative information resides in low-to-mid frequencies, LIF dynamics can inherently suppress high-frequency noise, clarifying when and why SNNs outperform ANNs. Based on this insight, we derive a principled criterion for configuring the membrane decay factor by matching the effective bandwidth of LIF dynamics to the data's discriminative spectral content. Experimental results across four widely used mmWave datasets validate the proposed frequency-matching hypothesis, yielding an average test-accuracy improvement of 6.22% and a 3.64$\times$ reduction in theoretical energy consumption relative to ANN baselines, under a unified evaluation protocol. |
| title | Frequency Matching in Spiking Neural Networks for mmWave Sensing |
| topic | Neural and Evolutionary Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09983 |