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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…

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For Human Action Recognition tasks (HAR), 3D Convolutional Neural Networks have proven to be highly effective, achieving state-of-the-art results. This study introduces a novel streaming architecture based toolflow for mapping such models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Petros Toupas , Alexander Montgomerie-Corcoran , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Chao Li , Yi Yang , Min Feng , Srimat Chakradhar , Huiyang Zhou

FPGA accelerators for lightweight neural convolutional networks (LWCNNs) have recently attracted significant attention. Most existing LWCNN accelerators focus on single-Computing-Engine (CE) architecture with local optimization. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yihao Chen , Pengcheng Feng , Jixing Li , Gang Chen , Rongxuan Shen , Huaxiang Lu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great success in many applications such as recommendation systems, molecular property prediction, traffic prediction, etc. Recently, CPU-FPGA heterogeneous platforms have been used to accelerate many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yi-Chien Lin , Bingyi Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require both intensive computation and frequent memory access, which lead to a low processing speed and large power dissipation. Although the characteristics of the different layers in a CNN are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Duy Thanh Nguyen , Hyun Kim , Hyuk-Jae Lee

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ilkay Sikdokur , Inci Baytas , Arda Yurdakul

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state of the art systems for image classification and scene understating. However, such techniques are computationally intensive and involve highly regular parallel computation. CNNs can…

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society because of the numerous services they provide. On the other hand, they require considerable computing power. To satisfy these requirements, it is possible to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alireza Ghaffari , Yvon Savaria

With the rapidly-developing high-speed wireless communications, the 60 GHz millimeter-wave frequency range and radio-over-fiber systems have been investigated as a promising solution to deliver mm-wave signals. Neural networks have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Jeonghun Lee , Jiayuan He , Ke Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive algorithms that currently require dedicated hardware to be executed. In the case of FPGA-Based accelerators, we point-out in this work the challenge of Multi-Operand Adders…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kamel Abdelouahab , François Berry , Maxime Pelcat

This paper presents Systolic-CNN, an OpenCL-defined scalable, run-time-flexible FPGA accelerator architecture, optimized for accelerating the inference of various convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in multi-tenancy cloud/edge computing.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Akshay Dua , Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Single computation engines have become a popular design choice for FPGA-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enabling the deployment of diverse models without fabric reconfiguration. This flexibility, however, often comes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Stylianos I. Venieris , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane

The growing demand for real-time processing in artificial intelligence applications, particularly those involving Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), has highlighted the need for efficient computational solutions. Conventional processors,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Angelos Athanasiadis , Nikolaos Tampouratzis , Ioannis Papaefstathiou

Large-scale deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in machine learning applications. While CNNs involve huge complexity, VLSI (ASIC and FPGA) chips that deliver high-density integration of computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Xushen Han , Dajiang Zhou , Shihao Wang , Shinji Kimura

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

Dataflow-based CNN accelerators on FPGAs achieve low latency and high throughput by mapping computations of each layer directly to corresponding hardware units. However, layers such as pooling and strided convolutions reduce the data at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tobias Habermann , Martin Kumm

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the performance and reconfigurability for specific application…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Ringo S. W. Chu , Jakub Stano , Wayne Luk

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