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Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

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Image Understanding is becoming a vital feature in ever more applications ranging from medical diagnostics to autonomous vehicles. Many applications demand for embedded solutions that integrate into existing systems with tight real-time and…

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While hardware implementations of inference routines for Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are plentiful, current realizations of efficient BNN hardware training accelerators, suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, leave much to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

It is well known that many types of artificial neural networks, including recurrent networks, can achieve a high classification accuracy even with low-precision weights and activations. The reduction in precision generally yields much more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Vladimir Rybalkin , Alessandro Pappalardo , Muhammad Mohsin Ghaffar , Giulio Gambardella , Norbert Wehn , Michaela Blott

Research has shown that deep neural networks contain significant redundancy, and thus that high classification accuracy can be achieved even when weights and activations are quantized down to binary values. Network binarization on FPGAs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

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

Since introduced, Swin Transformer has achieved remarkable results in the field of computer vision, it has sparked the need for dedicated hardware accelerators, specifically catering to edge computing demands. For the advantages of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhiyang Liu , Pengyu Yin , Zhenhua Ren

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

Deep networks are now able to achieve human-level performance on a broad spectrum of recognition tasks. Independently, neuromorphic computing has now demonstrated unprecedented energy-efficiency through a new chip architecture based on…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become state-of-the art for computer vision and other signal processing tasks due to their superior accuracy. In recent years, large efforts have been made to reduce the computational costs of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Fischer , Juergen Wassner

Domain specific neural network accelerators have garnered attention because of their improved energy efficiency and inference performance compared to CPUs and GPUs. Such accelerators are thus well suited for resource-constrained embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Febin P. Sunny , Asif Mirza , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

We present a neural network architecture and training method designed to enable very rapid training and low implementation complexity. Due to its training speed and very few tunable parameters, the method has strong potential for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Mark D. McDonnell , Tony Vladusich

Recent technological advances have proliferated the available computing power, memory, and speed of modern Central Processing Units (CPUs), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Consequently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Corey Lammie , Wei Xiang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Multimodal stacks that mix ViTs, CNNs, GNNs, and transformer NLP strain embedded platforms because their compute/memory patterns diverge and hard real-time targets leave little slack. TRINE is a single-bitstream FPGA accelerator and…

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This paper proposes ReBNet, an end-to-end framework for training reconfigurable binary neural networks on software and developing efficient accelerators for execution on FPGA. Binary neural networks offer an intriguing opportunity for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Mohammad Ghasemzadeh , Mohammad Samragh , Farinaz Koushanfar

Binary neural networks provide a promising solution for low-power, high-speed inference by replacing expensive floating-point operations with bitwise logic. This makes them well-suited for deployment on resource-constrained platforms such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Emir Devlet Ertörer , Cem Ünsalan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

FPGA-based hardware accelerators for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained great attentions due to their higher energy efficiency than GPUs. However, it is challenging for FPGA-based solutions to achieve a higher throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yixing Li , Zichuan Liu , Kai Xu , Hao Yu , Fengbo Ren

Though CNNs are highly parallel workloads, in the absence of efficient on-chip memory reuse techniques, an accelerator for them quickly becomes memory bound. In this paper, we propose a CNN accelerator design for inference that is able to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kingshuk Majumder , Shubham Nema , Uday Bondhugula

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado