https://github.com/electronicvisions/lauscher
https://github.com/electronicvisions/lauscher
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/electronicvisions/lauscher
- Owner: electronicvisions
- License: lgpl-2.1
- Created: 2020-08-13T08:01:17.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-09-16T11:02:39.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-19T21:29:40.462Z (8 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 343 KB
- Stars: 28
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# LAUSCHER – Flexible Auditory Spike Conversion Chain
If you find this package useful for your scientific work, please consider citing our paper
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9311226
```
@article{cramer_heidelberg_2020,
title = {The {Heidelberg} {Spiking} {Data} {Sets} for the {Systematic} {Evaluation} of {Spiking} {Neural} {Networks}},
issn = {2162-2388},
doi = {10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3044364},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems},
author = {Cramer, B. and Stradmann, Y. and Schemmel, J. and Zenke, F.},
year = {2020},
pages = {1--14}
}
```
## Installation
*Lauscher* uses the [SoundFile](https://pysoundfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) package for parsing audio data.
On Linux, this library requires you to install `libsndfile` via your distribution's package manager, e.g. via `apt install libsndfile1`.
We recommend setting up a [virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv) (you'll need `apt install python3-venv` or similar) for your *lauscher* project:
```shell
git clone https://github.com/electronicvisions/lauscher.git
cd lauscher
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
## Usage
Assuming you are working in a private copy of *lauscher* that has been installed as noted above, you can continue by calculating a first spiketrain from one of the included examples:
```shell
python -m lauscher test/resources/spoken_digit.flac my_first_spiketrain.npz --num_channels 70 --verbose
```
Note that due to the complexity of the implemented model, even short audio files might take multiple minutes to convert.
Memory consumption might be huge for long audio files.
## License
```
LAUSCHER - Flexbile Auditory Spike Conversion Chain
Copyright (C) 2020 Benjamin Cramer
Yannik Stradmann
Koshika Yadava
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
```