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Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are typically designed with a primary focus on maximizing performance, often measured in giga-operations per second (GOPS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Panagiotis Mousouliotis , Georgios Keramidas

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

AI has led to significant advancements in computer vision and image processing tasks, enabling a wide range of applications in real-life scenarios, from autonomous vehicles to medical imaging. Many of those applications require efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Alexander Montgomerie-Corcoran , Petros Toupas , Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Patrick Plagwitz , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Oliver Keszocze

Surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, human monitoring systems, and video retrieval are just few of the many applications in which 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are exploited. However, their extensive use is restricted by their high…

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

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

Edge computing devices inherently face tight resource constraints, which is especially apparent when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNN) with high memory and compute demands. FPGAs are commonly available in edge devices. Since these…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jude Haris , Perry Gibson , José Cano , Nicolas Bohm Agostini , David Kaeli

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Serot , François Berry

Systolic array has emerged as a prominent architecture for Deep Neural Network (DNN) hardware accelerators, providing high-throughput and low-latency performance essential for deploying DNNs across diverse applications. However, when used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mahdi Taheri , Masoud Daneshtalab , Jaan Raik , Maksim Jenihhin , Salvatore Pappalardo , Paul Jimenez , Bastien Deveautour , Alberto Bosio

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) 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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

Among hardware accelerators for deep-learning inference, data flow implementations offer low latency and high throughput capabilities. In these architectures, each neuron is mapped to a dedicated hardware unit, making them well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tobias Habermann , Michael Mecik , Zhenyu Wang , César David Vera , Martin Kumm , Mario Garrido

We propose a language and compiler to productively build high-performance {\it software systolic arrays} that run on GPUs. Based on a rigorous mathematical foundation (uniform recurrence equations and space-time transform), our language has…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Hongbo Rong , Xiaochen Hao , Yun Liang , Lidong Xu , Hong H Jiang , Pradeep Dubey

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their ability to solve problems in many fields and with accuracy that was not possible before. However, this comes with extensive computational requirements, which made…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh , Mohammad Altakrouri , Ahmad Shawahna

Including Artificial Neural Networks in embedded systems at the edge allows applications to exploit Artificial Intelligence capabilities directly within devices operating at the network periphery. This paper introduces Spiker+, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Alessio Carpegna , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are fundamental to deep learning, driving applications across various domains. However, their growing complexity has significantly increased computational demands, necessitating efficient hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Junye Jiang , Yaan Zhou , Yuanhao Gong , Haoxuan Yuan , Shuanglong Liu

Significant effort has been placed on the development of toolflows that map Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models to Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with the aim of automating the production of high performing designs for a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Alexander Montgomerie-Corcoran , Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis