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The convolutional neural network (CNN) has become a state-of-the-art method for several artificial intelligence domains in recent years. The increasingly complex CNN models are both computation-bound and I/O-bound. FPGA-based accelerators…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Yu Xing , Shuang Liang , Lingzhi Sui , Xijie Jia , Jiantao Qiu , Xin Liu , Yushun Wang , Yu Wang , Yi Shan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 David Gschwend

Deep Neural Networks are becoming the de-facto standard models for image understanding, and more generally for computer vision tasks. As they involve highly parallelizable computations, CNN are well suited to current fine grain programmable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Kamel Abdelouahab , Cedric Bourrasset , Maxime Pelcat , François Berry , Jean-Charles Quinton , Jocelyn Serot

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various computer vision applications. In recent years, FPGA-based CNN accelerators have been proposed for optimizing performance and power efficiency. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jung-Woo Chang , Keon-Woo Kang , Suk-Ju Kang

Deep Neural Networks have flourished at an unprecedented pace in recent years. They have achieved outstanding accuracy in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, medicine or economics. Specifically, Convolutional Neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Robert Guirado , Hyoukjun Kwon , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal , Tushar Krishna

Convolutional neural network (CNN) dataflow inference accelerators implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have demonstrated increased energy efficiency and lower latency compared to CNN execution on CPUs or GPUs. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mairin Kroes , Lucian Petrica , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

Computer vision performances have been significantly improved in recent years by Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN). Currently, applications using CNN algorithms are deployed mainly on general purpose hardwares, such as CPUs, GPUs or FPGAs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Baohua Sun , Lin Yang , Patrick Dong , Wenhan Zhang , Jason Dong , Charles Young

The increasing demand for real-time, low-latency artificial intelligence applications has propelled the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations. FPGAs offer reconfigurability,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Deep neural networks have proven to be particularly effective in visual and audio recognition tasks. Existing models tend to be computationally expensive and memory intensive, however, and so methods for hardware-oriented approximation have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Ruizhe Zhao , Ho-Cheung Ng , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

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

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

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

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

Deep-learning is a cutting edge theory that is being applied to many fields. For vision applications the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are demanding significant accuracy for classification tasks. Numerous hardware accelerators have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Alejandro Linares-Barranco , Antonio Rios-Navarro , Ricardo Tapiador-Morales , Tobi Delbruck

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 widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Recent advancements in deep learning techniques have spurred considerable interest in their application to hyperspectral imagery processing. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this field, focusing on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Nafiseh Ghasemi , Jon Alvarez Justo , Marco Celesti , Laurent Despoisse , Jens Nieke

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

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