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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction in the field of machine learning, particularly due to their high accuracy in visual recognition. Recent works have pushed the performance of GPU implementations of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Roberto DiCecco , Griffin Lacey , Jasmina Vasiljevic , Paul Chow , Graham Taylor , Shawki Areibi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require a large number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations. To meet real-time constraints, they often need to be executed on specialized accelerators composed of an on-chip memory and a processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Benjamin Husson , Mohammed Belcaïd , Thomas Carle , Claire Pagetti

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance in various fields such as image classification, pattern recognition, and multi-media compression. Two of the feature properties, local connectivity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Qianru Zhang , Meng Zhang , Tinghuan Chen , Zhifei Sun , Yuzhe Ma , Bei Yu

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) requires significantly more computation and memory than inference, making runtime adaptation of DNNs challenging on resource-limited IoT platforms. We propose InstantFT, an FPGA-based method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keisuke Sugiura , Hiroki Matsutani

Convolutional Neural Networks are extensively used in a wide range of applications, commonly including computer vision tasks like image and video classification, recognition, and segmentation. Recent research results demonstrate that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-11 Marco Carreras , Gianfranco Deriu , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini , Paolo Meloni

Training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)on embedded platforms to support on-device learning is earning vital importance in recent days. Designing flexible training hard-ware is much more challenging than inference hardware, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Yufei Ma , Shihui Yin , Eriko Nurvithadhi , Aravind Dasu , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the core of most state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms specialized for object detection and classification. CNNs are both computationally complex and embarrassingly parallel. Two properties that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Andre Xian Ming Chang , Aliasger Zaidy , Vinayak Gokhale , Eugenio Culurciello

Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel neural network processing is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Maohua Zhu , Liu Liu , Chao Wang , Yuan Xie

Graph learning is currently dominated by graph kernels, which, while powerful, suffer some significant limitations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer a very appealing alternative, but processing graphs with CNNs is not trivial. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier , Giannis Nikolentzos , Polykarpos Meladianos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

This paper presents a new state-of-the-art for document image classification and retrieval, using features learned by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In object and scene analysis, deep neural nets are capable of learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Adam W. Harley , Alex Ufkes , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

We present a full-stack optimization framework for accelerating inference of CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) and validate the approach with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) implementations. By jointly optimizing CNN models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Bradley McDanel , Sai Qian Zhang , H. T. Kung , Xin Dong

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the current state-of-the-art for digital analysis of histopathological images. The large size of whole-slide microscopy images (WSIs) requires advanced memory handling to read, display and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 André Pedersen , Marit Valla , Anna M. Bofin , Javier Pérez de Frutos , Ingerid Reinertsen , Erik Smistad

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently demonstrated superior quality for computational imaging applications. Therefore, they have great potential to revolutionize the image pipelines on cameras and displays. However, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao-Tsung Huang , Yu-Chun Ding , Huan-Ching Wang , Chi-Wen Weng , Kai-Ping Lin , Li-Wei Wang , Li-De Chen

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been widely deployed in diverse application domains. There has been significant progress in accelerating both their training and inference using high-performance GPUs, FPGAs, and custom ASICs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Guanwen Zhong , Akshat Dubey , Tan Cheng , Tulika Mitra

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are central to modern AI, but their performance is often limited by hardware constraints. NVIDIA Tensor Cores, for instance, require input channels to be multiples of 8 and sometimes 512 for efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ganesh Bikshandi

Neural Network designs are quite diverse, from VGG-style to ResNet-style, and from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers. Towards the design of efficient accelerators, many works have adopted a dataflow-based, inter-layer pipelined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

The convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one of the deep learning models, has seen much success in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, designing CNN architectures still requires expert knowledge and a lot of trial and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Masanori Suganuma , Shinichi Shirakawa , Tomoharu Nagao

Within the world of machine learning there exists a wide range of different methods with respective advantages and applications. This paper seeks to present and discuss one such method, namely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lars Lien Ankile , Morgan Feet Heggland , Kjartan Krange