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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the world of computer vision over the last few years, pushing image classification beyond human accuracy. The computational effort of today's CNNs requires power-hungry parallel…
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Image aesthetic evaluation has attracted much attention in recent years. Image aesthetic evaluation methods heavily depend on the effective aesthetic feature. Traditional meth-ods always extract hand-crafted features. However, these…
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Over the past few years, silicon photonics-based computing has emerged as a promising alternative to CMOS-based computing for Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Unfortunately, the non-linear operations and the high-precision requirements of DNNs…
We introduce a new method, called CNNAS (convolutional neural networks for atomistic systems), for calculating the total energy of atomic systems which rivals the computational cost of empirical potentials while maintaining the accuracy of…
Photonic delay systems have revolutionized the hardware implementation of Recurrent Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing in particular. The fundamental principles of Reservoir Computing strongly benefit a realization in such complex…
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Neuromorphic engineering is essentially the development of artificial systems, such as electronic analog circuits that employ information representations found in biological nervous systems. Despite being faster and more accurate than the…
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Deep neural networks have been applied to improve the image quality of fluorescence microscopy imaging. Previous methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which generally require more time-consuming training of separate…