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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained high popularity as a tool for computer vision tasks and for that reason are used in various applications. There are many different concepts, like single shot detectors, that have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ilkay Wunderlich , Benjamin Koch , Sven Schönfeld

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

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

Nowadays most research in visual recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) follows the "deeper model with deeper confidence" belief to gain a higher recognition accuracy. At the same time, deeper model brings heavier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mohammad Farhadi , Mehdi Ghasemi , Yezhou Yang

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

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

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

A new architecture of CNN hardware accelerator is presented. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a subclass of neural networks that have demonstrated outstanding performance in a variety of computer vision applications, including…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Amit Sarkar

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various computer vision applications. In recent years, FPGA-based CNN accelerators have been proposed for optimizing performance and power efficiency. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jung-Woo Chang , Keon-Woo Kang , Suk-Ju Kang

Deep learning and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) have becoming increasingly more popular and important in both academic and industrial areas in recent years cause they are able to provide better accuracy and result in classification,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Ke He , Bo Liu , Yu Zhang , Andrew Ling , Dian Gu

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Paul Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Matthew Mattina

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

Neural Network designs are quite diverse, from VGG-style to ResNet-style, and from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers. Towards the design of efficient accelerators, many works have adopted a dataflow-based, inter-layer pipelined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Automated design methods for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been developed in order to increase the design productivity. We propose a neuroevolution method capable of evolving and optimizing CNNs with respect to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Filip Badan , Lukas Sekanina

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a major impact on our society because of the numerous services they provide. On the other hand, they require considerable computing power. To satisfy these requirements, it is possible to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alireza Ghaffari , Yvon Savaria

Recently, the field of deep learning has received great attention by the scientific community and it is used to provide improved solutions to many computer vision problems. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Panagiotis G. Mousouliotis , Loukas P. Petrou

The increasing demand for real-time, low-latency artificial intelligence applications has propelled the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations. FPGAs offer reconfigurability,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

Photonic Microring Resonator (MRR) based hardware accelerators have been shown to provide disruptive speedup and energy-efficiency improvements for processing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, previous MRR-based CNN…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Sairam Sri Vatsavai , Ishan G Thakkar

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata