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The tremendous potential exhibited by deep learning is often offset by architectural and computational complexity, making widespread deployment a challenge for edge scenarios such as mobile and other consumer devices. To tackle this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Alexander Wong , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Brendan Chwyl , Francis Li

The predictive power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been an integral factor for emerging latency-sensitive applications, such as autonomous drones and vehicles. Such systems employ multiple CNNs, each one trained for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Stylianos I. Venieris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained a remarkable success on many image classification tasks in recent years. However, the performance of CNNs highly relies upon their architectures. For most state-of-the-art CNNs, their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen

Modern transformer-based deep neural networks present unique technical challenges for effective acceleration in real-world applications. Apart from the vast amount of linear operations needed due to their sizes, modern transformer models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jiajun Wu , Mo Song , Jingmin Zhao , Yizhao Gao , Jia Li , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

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

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) serve various applications with diverse performance and resource requirements. Model-aware CNN accelerators best address these diverse requirements. These accelerators usually combine multiple dedicated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Fareed Qararyah , Mohammad Ali Maleki , Pedro Trancoso

This article exemplifies the design of a fruit detection and classification system using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The goal is to develop a system that automatically assesses fruit quality for farm inventory management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Beatriz Díaz Peón , Jorge Torres Gómez , Ariel Fajardo Márquez

FPGAs are well-suited for dataflow architectures that process data in a streaming or pipelined manner, thus satisfying the high computational and communication demands of emerging applications. However, manually implementing an efficient…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Weichuang Zhang , Yiquan Wang , Xinzhou Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yu Feng , Xiaofeng Hou , Chao Li , Jieru Zhao , Minyi Guo

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

Tomatoes are a major crop worldwide, and accurately classifying their maturity is important for many agricultural applications, such as harvesting, grading, and quality control. In this paper, the authors propose a novel method for tomato…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Asim Khan , Taimur Hassan , Muhammad Shafay , Israa Fahmy , Naoufel Werghi , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance in various fields such as image classification, pattern recognition, and multi-media compression. Two of the feature properties, local connectivity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Qianru Zhang , Meng Zhang , Tinghuan Chen , Zhifei Sun , Yuzhe Ma , Bei Yu

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

FPGA becomes a popular technology for implementing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in recent years. Most CNN applications on FPGA are domain-specific, e.g., detecting objects from specific categories, in which commonly-used CNN models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ruizhe Zhao , Ho-Cheung Ng , Wayne Luk , Xinyu Niu

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

While there is a large body of research on efficient processing of deep neural networks (DNNs), ultra-low-latency realization of these models for applications with stringent, sub-microsecond latency requirements continues to be an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mahdi Nazemi , Arash Fayyazi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Atharva Khare , Soheil Nazar Shahsavani , Massoud Pedram

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art in image classification. Since CNN feed forward propagation involves highly regular parallel computation, it benefits from a significant speed-up when running on fine grain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Kamel Abdelouahab , Maxime Pelcat , Jocelyn Sérot , Cédric Bourrasset , François Berry , Jocelyn Serot

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exhibit remarkable performance in various machine learning tasks. As sensor-equipped Internet of Things (IoT) devices permeate into every aspect of modern life, the ability to execute CNN inference, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Mohammad Motamedi , Daniel Fong , Soheil Ghiasi

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have become a Swiss knife in solving critical artificial intelligence tasks. However, deploying deep CNN models for latency-critical tasks remains to be challenging because of the complex nature of CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chuanhao Zhuge , Xinheng Liu , Xiaofan Zhang , Sudeep Gummadi , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Transformer neural networks (TNNs) are being applied across a widening range of application domains, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV). Their popularity is largely attributed to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ehsan Kabir , Md. Arafat Kabir , Austin R. J. Downey , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang