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In this paper, we introduce a memory-efficient CNN (convolutional neural network), which enables resource-constrained low-end embedded and IoT devices to perform on-device vision tasks, such as image classification and object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jaewook Lee , Yoel Park , Seulki Lee

Due to the advent of modern embedded systems and mobile devices with constrained resources, there is a great demand for incredibly efficient deep neural networks for machine learning purposes. There is also a growing concern of privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Priyank Kalgaonkar , Mohamed El-Sharkawy

Convolution is the most time-consuming part in the computation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have achieved great successes in numerous applications. Due to the complex data dependency and the increase in the amount of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xiaoyang Zhang , Junmin Xiao , Guangming Tan

The excellent performance of deep neural networks has enabled us to solve several automatization problems, opening an era of autonomous devices. However, current deep net architectures are heavy with millions of parameters and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Dat Thanh Tran , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Deep learning is slowly, but steadily, hitting a memory bottleneck. While the tensor computation in top-of-the-line GPUs increased by 32x over the last five years, the total available memory only grew by 2.5x. This prevents researchers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Aashaka Shah , Chao-Yuan Wu , Jayashree Mohan , Vijay Chidambaram , Philipp Krähenbühl

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

Depthwise convolutions are widely used in lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The performance of depthwise convolutions is mainly bounded by the memory access rather than the arithmetic operations for classic convolutions so…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Ruochen Hao , Qinglin Wang , Shangfei Yin , Tianyang Zhou , Siqi Shen , Songzhu Mei , Jie Liu

Tiny deep learning on microcontroller units (MCUs) is challenging due to the limited memory size. We find that the memory bottleneck is due to the imbalanced memory distribution in convolutional neural network (CNN) designs: the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ji Lin , Wei-Ming Chen , Han Cai , Chuang Gan , Song Han

The implementation of Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) on In-Memory Computing (IMC) architectures faces significant challenges due to the mismatch between highdimensional vectors and IMC array sizes, leading to inefficient memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Do Yeong Kang , Yeong Hwan Oh , Chanwook Hwang , Jinhee Kim , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

Deconvolution has been widespread in neural networks. For example, it is essential for performing unsupervised learning in generative adversarial networks or constructing fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. Resistive RAM…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Zichen Fan , Ziru Li , Bing Li , Yiran Chen , Hai , Li

Video frame interpolation is an increasingly important research task with several key industrial applications in the video coding, broadcast and production sectors. Recently, transformers have been introduced to the field resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Issa Khalifeh , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Ebroul Izquierdo

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

When a Convolutional Neural Network is used for on-the-fly evaluation of continuously updating time-sequences, many redundant convolution operations are performed. We propose the method of Deep Shifting, which remembers previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Koen Groenland , Sander Bohte

Deep neural networks are increasingly used on mobile devices, where computational resources are limited. In this paper we develop CondenseNet, a novel network architecture with unprecedented efficiency. It combines dense connectivity with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Gao Huang , Shichen Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Recent literature has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels outperform vision transformers (ViTs) and CNNs with stacked small kernels in many computer vision tasks, such as object detection and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

End-to-End (E2E) unrolled optimization frameworks show promise for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image recovery, but suffer from high memory usage during training. In addition, these deterministic approaches do not offer opportunities for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Jyothi Rikhab Chand , Mathews Jacob

While deep neural network (DNN)-based video denoising has demonstrated significant performance, deploying state-of-the-art models on edge devices remains challenging due to stringent real-time and energy efficiency requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shan Gao , Zhiqiang Wu , Yawen Niu , Xiaotao Li , Qingqing Xu

Recently, channel attention mechanism has demonstrated to offer great potential in improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, most existing methods dedicate to developing more sophisticated attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Qilong Wang , Banggu Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Peihua Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Qinghua Hu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as one of the most successful machine learning technologies for image and video processing. The most computationally intensive parts of CNNs are the convolutional layers, which convolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Aravind Vasudevan , Andrew Anderson , David Gregg

In the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network with a multi-layer architecture has advanced rapidly. However, training its complex network is very space-consuming, since a lot of intermediate data are preserved across layers, especially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhigang Wang , Hangyu Yang , Ning Wang , Chuanfei Xu , Jie Nie , Zhiqiang Wei , Yu Gu , Ge Yu