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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Shuanglong Liu , Ringo S. W. Chu , Xiwei Wang , Wayne Luk

In the past decade, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various Artificial Intelligence tasks. To accelerate the experimentation and development of CNNs, several software frameworks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Stylianos I. Venieris , Alexandros Kouris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

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

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

Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xiaoyu Yu , Yuwei Wang , Jie Miao , Ephrem Wu , Heng Zhang , Yu Meng , Bo Zhang , Biao Min , Dewei Chen , Jianlin Gao

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

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

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction in the field of machine learning, particularly due to their high accuracy in visual recognition. Recent works have pushed the performance of GPU implementations of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Roberto DiCecco , Griffin Lacey , Jasmina Vasiljevic , Paul Chow , Graham Taylor , Shawki Areibi

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently demonstrated superior quality for computational imaging applications. Therefore, they have great potential to revolutionize the image pipelines on cameras and displays. However, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao-Tsung Huang , Yu-Chun Ding , Huan-Ching Wang , Chi-Wen Weng , Kai-Ping Lin , Li-Wei Wang , Li-De Chen

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

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

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

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

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

The paradigm shift towards local and on-device inference under stringent resource constraints is represented by the tiny machine learning (TinyML) domain. The primary goal of TinyML is to integrate intelligence into tiny, low-cost devices…

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

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

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen