Spiking point cloud networks usually scan space in a fixed, input-agnostic order, which leaves the most distinctive resource of spiking computation, the temporal evolution of the membrane potential, unused as a locus of decision-making. Active Spiking Perception (ASP) recasts 3D recognition as an iterative decision process in which the network's own leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) membrane potential, read as a running belief over the class, selects the next chunk to observe and triggers confidence-margin early exit. A lightweight Slice-Selection Policy scores unvisited farthest-point-sampled chunks from the membrane state and precomputed geometric descriptors, trains end-to-end through a straight-through Gumbel-Softmax, reduces to an argmax at inference, and adds about 2% of backbone parameters. We prove that leaky integration is the recursive log-posterior update of a Bayesian filter, that the exit rule attains distribution-free selective risk with no multiple-testing penalty at the stopping time, and that streaming state carry-forward is exactly equivalent to prefix recomputation with bounded finite-precision drift. ASP reaches 90.62% and 93.28% on ModelNet40 and ModelNet10, 1.7 points below the strongest spiking baseline at a larger backbone, while adding a certified anytime interface no baseline offers. The mechanism transfers unchanged to dense prediction, giving 83.21 instance mIoU on ShapeNetPart and 48.50 mIoU on S3DIS Area 5, to our knowledge the first spiking results on S3DIS Area 5, and, fixation replacing chunk selection, to a foveated non-spiking transformer, so the policy is not tied to spiking backbones: cost is exactly linear in observations and the threshold is a measured compute dial spanning 2.8x to 1.35x less energy. One limitation is concrete: one S3DIS class is unidentifiable at the crop size we use, and we give the prediction that would fix it.
Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) integrates the complementary information of two modalities into a single image with richer scene content. While existing methods are largely built on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which densely compute over all activations, spiking neural networks (SNNs) communicate through sparse binary spikes and compute only where and when a spike occurs, offering a route to more energy-efficient fusion. However, directly applying SNNs to IVIF creates a fundamental tension: cross-modal fusion relies on fine-grained responses from both modalities, whereas binary spikes can discard complementary cues that remain below the firing threshold. The membrane potential retains these subthreshold responses before firing, letting both modalities jointly shape the output when integrated at this stage. Building on this, we propose CIS-Fuse, a spiking network that performs cross-modal fusion directly at the membrane-potential level. At its core is the current injection spiking (CIS) operator, which injects one modality as a gated auxiliary current into the driving neuron of the other, so the two integrate before spike firing, with a per-channel learnable injection strength that adaptively regulates the modulation magnitude. Building on CIS, we construct a bidirectional cross-modal fusion (BCMF) module and deploy it on a dual-branch architecture with asymmetric stacking depths, where the two branches develop a clear functional specialization. Extensive experiments on four IVIF benchmarks and on downstream detection and segmentation show that CIS-Fuse achieves fusion quality on par with state-of-the-art ANN-based methods while inheriting the energy efficiency of spike-based computation, with roughly an order of magnitude lower inference energy than the similarly-sized ANN-based DCEvo. Code will be released upon publication.