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    Author(s)
    Display Name
    Osamu Nomura
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Display Name
    Yusuke Sakemi
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Chiba Institute of Technology
    Display Name
    Takeo Hosomi
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    NEC Corporation
    Display Name
    Takashi Morie
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Abstract

    Spiking neural networks (SNNs) more closely mimic the human brain than artificial neural networks (ANNs). For SNNs, time-to-first-spike (TTFS) encoding, which represents the output values of neurons based on the timing of a single spike, has been proposed as a promising model to reduce power consumption. In this study, we investigated the robustness of SNNs against adversarial attacks and compared it with that of an ANN. We found that SNNs trained with the appropriate temporal penalty settings are more robust against adversarial images than ANNs.