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Autoregressive convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely exploited for sequence generation tasks such as audio synthesis, language modeling and neural machine translation. WaveNet is a deep autoregressive CNN composed of several…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Mojan Javaheripi , Paarth Neekhara , Ryan Kastner , Farinaz Koushanfar

Event-based vision represents a paradigm shift in how vision information is captured and processed. By only responding to dynamic intensity changes in the scene, event-based sensing produces far less data than conventional frame-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yizhao Gao , Baoheng Zhang , Yuhao Ding , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

The utilisation of event cameras represents an important and swiftly evolving trend aimed at addressing the constraints of traditional video systems. Particularly within the automotive domain, these cameras find significant relevance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kamil Jeziorek , Piotr Wzorek , Krzysztof Blachut , Andrea Pinna , Tomasz Kryjak

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

Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated their potential in a wide range of applications such as image recognition, decision making or recommendation systems. However, standard NNs are unable to capture their model uncertainty which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hongxiang Fan , Martin Ferianc , Miguel Rodrigues , Hongyu Zhou , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk

Graph neural network (GNN) inference faces significant bottlenecks in preprocessing, which often dominate overall inference latency. We introduce AutoGNN, an FPGA-based accelerator designed to address these challenges by leveraging FPGA's…

With the rapid development of manufacturing industry, machine fault diagnosis has become increasingly significant to ensure safe equipment operation and production. Consequently, multifarious approaches have been explored and developed in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Jinyang Jiao , Ming Zhao , Jing Lin , Kaixuan Liang

Low-latency, energy-efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) inference are critical for edge applications, where traditional cloud-based deployment suffers from high latency and security risks. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zeyu Guo

The record-breaking achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification and detection tasks resulted in a surge of new computer vision applications during the past years. However, their computational complexity is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Petar Jokic , Stephane Emery , Luca Benini

In natural language processing (NLP), the "Transformer" architecture was proposed as the first transduction model replying entirely on self-attention mechanisms without using sequence-aligned recurrent neural networks (RNNs) or convolution,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bingbing Li , Santosh Pandey , Haowen Fang , Yanjun Lyv , Ji Li , Jieyang Chen , Mimi Xie , Lipeng Wan , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

Heterogeneous computing can potentially offer significant performance and performance per watt improvements over homogeneous computing, but the question "what is the ideal mapping of algorithms to architectures?" remains an open one. In the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Oren Segal , Nasibeh Nasiri , Martin Margala

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have constantly achieved better performance over years by introducing more complex topology, and enlarging the capacity towards deeper and wider CNNs. This makes the manual design of CNNs extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Benefitted from its great success on many tasks, deep learning is increasingly used on low-computational-cost devices, e.g. smartphone, embedded devices, etc. To reduce the high computational and memory cost, in this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xijun Wang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, the large volume of intermediate results generated during inference poses a significant challenge to the accelerator design for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Fanrong Li , Jian Cheng

The ever-increasing data rates of modern communication systems lead to severe distortions of the communication signal, imposing great challenges to state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms. In this context, neural network (NN)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jonas Ney , Norbert Wehn

Residual neural networks are widely used in computer vision tasks. They enable the construction of deeper and more accurate models by mitigating the vanishing gradient problem. Their main innovation is the residual block which allows the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Filippo Minnella , Teodoro Urso , Mihai T. Lazarescu , Luciano Lavagno

The rapid growth of Internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence applications have called forth a new computing paradigm--edge computing. In this paper, we study the suitability of deploying FPGAs for edge computing from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Saman Biookaghazadeh , Fengbo Ren , Ming Zhao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) based solutions are the current state- of-the-art for computer vision tasks. Due to the large size of these models, they are typically run on clusters of CPUs or GPUs. However, power requirements and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Farhan Shafiq , Takato Yamada , Antonio T. Vilchez , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

The continued need for improvements in accuracy, throughput, and efficiency of Deep Neural Networks has resulted in a multitude of methods that make the most of custom architectures on FPGAs. These include the creation of hand-crafted…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Benjamin Biggs , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , George A. Constantinides

Neural networks have demonstrated their outstanding performance in a wide range of tasks. Specifically recurrent architectures based on long-short term memory (LSTM) cells have manifested excellent capability to model time dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Martin Ferianc , Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Wayne Luk , Miguel Rodrigues