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Low precision data representation is important to reduce storage size and memory access for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Yet, existing methods have two major limitations: (1) requiring re-training to maintain accuracy for deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Chen Wu , Mingyu Wang , Xinyuan Chu , Kun Wang , Lei He

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

Crop diseases present a significant barrier to agricultural productivity and global food security, especially in large-scale farming where early identification is often delayed or inaccurate. This research introduces a Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sourish Suri , Yifei Shao

The growing concerns regarding energy consumption and privacy have prompted the development of AI solutions deployable on the edge, circumventing the substantial CO2 emissions associated with cloud servers and mitigating risks related to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Svetlana Pavlitska , Tobias Fleck , Oliver Bringmann

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to perform extremely well at a variety of tasks including subtasks of autonomous driving such as image segmentation and object classification. However, networks designed for these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yiqi Hou , Sascha Hornauer , Karl Zipser

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved major breakthroughs in recent years. Their performance in computer vision have matched and in some areas even surpassed human capabilities. Deep neural networks can capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Philipp Gysel

This paper introduces an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of automating various topology optimization (TO) problems with diverse underlying physics. The proposed architecture has an encoder-decoder-type…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

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

Convolutional neural network (CNN) offers significant accuracy in image detection. To implement image detection using CNN in the internet of things (IoT) devices, a streaming hardware accelerator is proposed. The proposed accelerator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Li Du , Yuan Du , Yilei Li , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Custom dataflow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference accelerators on FPGA are tailored to a specific CNN topology and store parameters in On-Chip Memory (OCM), resulting in high energy efficiency and low inference latency. However,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Lucian Petrica , Tobias Alonso , Mairin Kroes , Nicholas Fraser , Sorin Cotofana , Michaela Blott

Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generate massive interlayer feature data during network inference. To maintain real-time processing in embedded systems, large on-chip memory is required to buffer the interlayer feature…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhuang Shao , Xiaoliang Chen , Li Du , Lei Chen , Yuan Du , Wei Zhuang , Huadong Wei , Chenjia Xie , Zhongfeng Wang

FPGA-based hardware accelerators for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained great attentions due to their higher energy efficiency than GPUs. However, it is challenging for FPGA-based solutions to achieve a higher throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yixing Li , Zichuan Liu , Kai Xu , Hao Yu , Fengbo Ren

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

A commonly occurring computation idiom in neural networks is to perform some pointwise operations on the result of a matrix multiplication. Such a sequence of operations is typically represented as a computation graph in deep learning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Somashekaracharya G. Bhaskaracharya , Julien Demouth , Vinod Grover

Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated their potential in a wide range of applications such as image recognition, decision making or recommendation systems. However, standard NNs are unable to capture their model uncertainty which is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hongxiang Fan , Martin Ferianc , Miguel Rodrigues , Hongyu Zhou , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk

In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Paritosh Pandey , Akella Deepthi , Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan

Graph neural network (GNN) inference faces significant bottlenecks in preprocessing, which often dominate overall inference latency. We introduce AutoGNN, an FPGA-based accelerator designed to address these challenges by leveraging FPGA's…