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---
license: mit
---

<div align="center">

<h1>I2E: Real-Time Image-to-Event Conversion for High-Performance Spiking Neural Networks</h1>

[![Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/Arxiv-2511.08065-B31B1B.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08065)
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</div>

## 🚀 Introduction

This repository contains the **I2E-Datasets** for the paper **"I2E: Real-Time Image-to-Event Conversion for High-Performance Spiking Neural Networks"**, which has been accepted for **Oral Presentation at AAAI 2026**.

**I2E** is a pioneering framework that bridges the data scarcity gap in neuromorphic computing. By simulating microsaccadic eye movements via highly parallelized convolution, I2E converts static images into high-fidelity event streams in real-time (>300x faster than prior methods).

### ✨ Key Highlights
* **SOTA Performance**: Achieves **60.50%** top-1 accuracy on Event-based ImageNet.
* **Sim-to-Real Transfer**: Pre-training on I2E data enables **92.5%** accuracy on real-world CIFAR10-DVS, setting a new benchmark.
* **Real-Time Conversion**: Enables on-the-fly data augmentation for deep SNN training.

## 🏆 Model Zoo & Results

We provide pre-trained models for **I2E-CIFAR** and **I2E-ImageNet**. You can download the `.pth` files directly from the [**Files and versions**](https://huggingface.co/Ruichen0424/I2E/tree/main) tab in model repository.

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<table border="1">
    <tr>
        <th>Target Dataset</th>
        <th align="center">Architecture</th>
        <th align="center">Method</th>
        <th align="center">Top-1 Acc</th>
    </tr>
    <!-- CIFAR10-DVS -->
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="3" align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>CIFAR10-DVS</strong><br>(Real)</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">65.6%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Transfer-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">83.1%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Transfer-II (Sim-to-Real)</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>92.5%</strong></td>
    </tr>
    <!-- I2E-CIFAR10 -->
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="3" align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>I2E-CIFAR10</strong></td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">85.07%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-II</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">89.23%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Transfer-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>90.86%</strong></td>
    </tr>
    <!-- I2E-CIFAR100 -->
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="3" align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>I2E-CIFAR100</strong></td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">51.32%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-II</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">60.68%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Transfer-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>64.53%</strong></td>
    </tr>
    <!-- I2E-ImageNet -->
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="4" align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>I2E-ImageNet</strong></td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">48.30%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-II</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">57.97%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet18</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Transfer-I</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">59.28%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">MS-ResNet34</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;">Baseline-II</td>
        <td align="center" style="vertical-align: middle;"><strong>60.50%</strong></td>
    </tr>
</table>

> **Method Legend:**
> * **Baseline-I**: Training from scratch with minimal augmentation.
> * **Baseline-II**: Training from scratch with full augmentation.
> * **Transfer-I**: Fine-tuning from Static ImageNet (or I2E-ImageNet for CIFAR targets).
> * **Transfer-II**: Fine-tuning from I2E-CIFAR10.

## 👁️ Visualization

Below is the visualization of the I2E conversion process. We illustrate the high-fidelity conversion from static RGB images to dynamic event streams.

More than 200 additional visualization comparisons can be found in [Visualization.md](./Visualization.md).

<table border="0" style="width: 100%">
  <tr>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/original_1.jpg" alt="Original 1" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/converted_1.gif" alt="Converted 1" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/original_2.jpg" alt="Original 2" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/converted_2.gif" alt="Converted 2" style="width:100%"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/original_3.jpg" alt="Original 3" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/converted_3.gif" alt="Converted 3" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/original_4.jpg" alt="Original 4" style="width:100%"></td>
    <td width="25%" align="center"><img src="./assets/converted_4.gif" alt="Converted 4" style="width:100%"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

## 💻 Usage
The generated I2E-Datasets are provided in the [**Files and versions**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/UESTC-BICS/I2E/tree/main) section, including I2E-CIFAR10, I2E-CIFAR100, and I2E-ImageNet.
For I2E-ImageNet, the following command can be used to concatenate the zip file.
``` bash
cat ./I2E-ImageNet_split.part_* > ./I2E-ImageNet.zip
```
We also provide MD5 checksums to facilitate verification. Use the following command to verify the compressed files:
``` bash
md5sum -c md5.txt
```

This repository hosts the **datasets only**.

For the **I2E dataset generation code**, **training scripts**, and detailed usage instructions, please refer to our official GitHub repository.

To generate the datasets (I2E-CIFAR10, I2E-CIFAR100, I2E-ImageNet) yourself using the I2E algorithm, please follow the instructions in the GitHub README.

[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Repository-black?logo=github)](https://github.com/Ruichen0424/I2E)


## 📜 Citation

If you find this work or the models useful, please cite our AAAI 2026 paper:

```bibtex
@article{ma2025i2e,
  title={I2E: Real-Time Image-to-Event Conversion for High-Performance Spiking Neural Networks},
  author={Ma, Ruichen and Meng, Liwei and Qiao, Guanchao and Ning, Ning and Liu, Yang and Hu, Shaogang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08065},
  year={2025}
}
```