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In order to handle modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) efficiently, a hardware architecture of CNN inference accelerator is proposed to handle depthwise convolutions and regular convolutions, which are both essential building blocks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tse-Wei Chen , Wei Tao , Deyu Wang , Dongchao Wen , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Convolution neural network demonstrates great capability for multiple tasks, such as image classification and many others. However, much resource is required to train a network. Hence much effort has been made to accelerate neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fuyuan Lyu , Shien Zhu , Weichen Liu

Dilated and transposed convolutions are widely used in modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These kernels are used extensively during CNN training and inference of applications such as image segmentation and high-resolution image…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable to state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. However, they are still rarely deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable gadgets, where vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tien-Ju Yang , Yu-Hsin Chen , Vivienne Sze

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have dominated the recent developments in computer vision through making various record-breaking models. However, it is still a great challenge to achieve powerful DCNNs in resource-limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jiaxin Gu , Junhe Zhao , Xiaolong Jiang , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Guodong Guo , Rongrong Ji

Deep Neural Networks have flourished at an unprecedented pace in recent years. They have achieved outstanding accuracy in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, medicine or economics. Specifically, Convolutional Neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Robert Guirado , Hyoukjun Kwon , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal , Tushar Krishna

To read the final version please go to IEEE TGRS on IEEE Xplore. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in hyperspectral (HS) image classification, owing to their ability to capture spatial-spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Jing Yao , Bing Zhang , Antonio Plaza , Jocelyn Chanussot

Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly reduced the number of arithmetic operations and the size of memory storage needed for CNNs, which makes their deployment on mobile and embedded systems more feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baozhou Zhu , Zaid Al-Ars , Peter Hofstee

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

For about 10 years, detecting the presence of a secret message hidden in an image was performed with an Ensemble Classifier trained with Rich features. In recent years, studies such as Xu et al. have indicated that well-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mehdi Yedroudj , Frederic Comby , Marc Chaumont

We propose a Digital Neuron, a hardware inference accelerator for convolutional deep neural networks with integer inputs and integer weights for embedded systems. The main idea to reduce circuit area and power consumption is manipulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Hyunbin Park , Dohyun Kim , Shiho Kim

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have small complexity and are good candidates for low-power, high-throughput inference. Such networks are heterogeneous in terms of computation-to-communication (CTC) ratios and computation…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Tiandong Zhao , Yunxuan Yu , Kun Wang , Lei He

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), where weights and activations are constrained to binary values (+1, -1), are a highly efficient alternative to traditional neural networks. Unfortunately, typical BNNs, while binarizing linear layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yuval Harary , Almog Sharoni , Esteban Garzón , Marco Lanuzza , Adam Teman , Leonid Yavits

Photonic convolutional accelerators have emerged as low-energy alternatives to power-demanding digital convolutional neural networks, though they often face limitations in scalability. In this work, we introduce a convolutional photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Georgios Moustakas , Adonis Bogris , Charis Mesaritakis

A new architecture of CNN hardware accelerator is presented. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a subclass of neural networks that have demonstrated outstanding performance in a variety of computer vision applications, including…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Amit Sarkar

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels, drawing inspiration from the key operations of vision transformers (ViTs), have demonstrated impressive performance in various vision-based applications. To address the issue of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Miaoxin Wang , Xiao Wu , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven highly effective for edge and mobile vision tasks due to their computational efficiency. While many recent works seek to enhance CNNs with global contextual understanding via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Đorđe Nedeljković

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely adopted in computer vision. Complex CNN architecture running on CPU or GPU has either insufficient throughput or prohibitive power consumption. Hence, there is a need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhengdong Li , Frederick Ziyang Hong , C. Patrick Yue

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising to deliver accuracy comparable to conventional deep neural networks at a fraction of the cost in terms of memory and energy. In this paper, we introduce the XNOR Neural Engine (XNE), a fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Francesco Conti , Pasquale Davide Schiavone , Luca Benini