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"Lightweight convolutional neural networks" is an important research topic in the field of embedded vision. To implement image recognition tasks on a resource-limited hardware platform, it is necessary to reduce the memory size and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tse-Wei Chen , Motoki Yoshinaga , Hongxing Gao , Wei Tao , Dongchao Wen , Junjie Liu , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

The large memory and computation consumption in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been one of the main barriers for deploying them on resource-limited systems. To this end, most cheap convolutions (e.g., group convolution, depth-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Jiao Xie , Shaohui Lin , Yichen Zhang , Linkai Luo

Winograd convolution is originally proposed to reduce the computing overhead by converting multiplication in neural network (NN) with addition via linear transformation. Other than the computing efficiency, we observe its great potential in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xinghua Xue , Haitong Huang , Cheng Liu , Ying Wang , Tao Luo , Lei Zhang

Spatial convolution is fundamental in constructing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for visual recognition. While dynamic convolution enhances model accuracy by adaptively combining static kernels, it incurs significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tianyu Zhang , Fan Wan , Haoran Duan , Kevin W. Tong , Jingjing Deng , Yang Long

Real-time semantic segmentation plays an important role in practical applications such as self-driving and robots. Most semantic segmentation research focuses on improving estimation accuracy with little consideration on efficiency. Several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Shao-Yuan Lo , Hsueh-Ming Hang , Sheng-Wei Chan , Jing-Jhih Lin

Deep convolutional neural networks take GPU days of compute time to train on large data sets. Pedestrian detection for self driving cars requires very low latency. Image recognition for mobile phones is constrained by limited processing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Andrew Lavin , Scott Gray

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for energy-efficient, low-latency dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC), in the context of beyond 5G networks endowed with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). In our setting, new computing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

This paper proposes a novel module called middle spectrum grouped convolution (MSGC) for efficient deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) with the mechanism of grouped convolution. It explores the broad "middle spectrum" area between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zhuo Su , Jiehua Zhang , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Shuanghui Zhang , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Convolution is one of the fundamental operations of deep neural networks with demanding matrix computation. In a graphic processing unit (GPU), Tensor Core is a specialized matrix processing hardware equipped with reduced-precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Junkyeong Choi , Hyucksung Kwon , Woongkyu Lee , Jungwook Choi , Jieun Lim

In this work, we present a memory-efficient fully convolutional network (FCN) incorporated with several memory-optimized techniques to reduce the run-time GPU memory demand during training phase. In medical image segmentation tasks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Chenglong Wang , Masahiro Oda , Kensaku Mori

Transformers have reached remarkable success in sequence modeling. However, these models have efficiency issues as they need to store all the history token-level representations as memory. We present Memformer, an efficient neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Qingyang Wu , Zhenzhong Lan , Kun Qian , Jing Gu , Alborz Geramifard , Zhou Yu

Convolution operations are foundational to classical image processing and modern deep learning architectures, yet their extension into the quantum domain has remained algorithmically and physically costly due to inefficient data encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Mohammad Rasoul Roshanshah , Payman Kazemikhah , Hossein Aghababa

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weiyu Guo , Jiabin Ma , Liang Wang , Yongzhen Huang

In this paper we address the memory demands that come with the processing of 3-dimensional, high-resolution, multi-channeled medical images in deep learning. We exploit memory-efficient backpropagation techniques, to reduce the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Stefano B. Blumberg , Ryutaro Tanno , Iasonas Kokkinos , Daniel C. Alexander

Convolution is one of the most computationally intensive operations that must be performed for machine-learning model inference. A traditional approach to compute convolutions is known as the Im2Col + BLAS method. This paper proposes SConv:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Victor Ferrari , Rafael Sousa , Marcio Pereira , João P. L. de Carvalho , José Nelson Amaral , José Moreira , Guido Araujo

To achieve high accuracy, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly growing in complexity and diversity in layer types and topologies. This makes it very challenging to efficiently deploy such networks on custom processor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Steven Colleman , Man Shi , Marian Verhelst

Deep convolutional neural network has made huge revolution and shown its superior performance on computer vision tasks such as classification and segmentation. Recent years, researches devote much effort to scaling down size of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yingdong Hu

We introduce a model-based image reconstruction framework with a convolution neural network (CNN) based regularization prior. The proposed formulation provides a systematic approach for deriving deep architectures for inverse problems with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Merry P. Mani , Mathews Jacob

Convolution operator is the core of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and occupies the most computation cost. To make CNNs more efficient, many methods have been proposed to either design lightweight networks or compress models. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yikang Zhang , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wang , Zhao Zhong