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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…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in modern artificial intelligence (AI) and smart vision systems but also limited by computation latency, throughput, and energy efficiency on a resource-limited scenario, such as…

Deep Neural Networks are becoming the de-facto standard models for image understanding, and more generally for computer vision tasks. As they involve highly parallelizable computations, CNN are well suited to current fine grain programmable…

For image classification problems, various neural network models are commonly used due to their success in yielding high accuracies. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most frequently used deep learning methods for image…

Machine intelligence, especially using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has become a large area of research over the past years. Increasingly sophisticated hardware accelerators are proposed that exploit e.g. the sparsity in…

Overlays have shown significant promise for field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) as they allow for fast development cycles and remove many of the challenges of the traditional FPGA hardware design flow. However, this often comes with a…

The rapid advancement of wireless communication technologies, including 5G, emerging 6G networks, and the large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), has intensified the need for efficient spectrum utilization. Automatic…

Event-based vision represents a paradigm shift in how vision information is captured and processed. By only responding to dynamic intensity changes in the scene, event-based sensing produces far less data than conventional frame-based…

Network pruning can reduce the computation cost of deep neural network (DNN) models. However, sparse models often produce randomly-distributed weights to maintain accuracy, leading to irregular computations. Consequently, unstructured…

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) based solutions are the current state- of-the-art for computer vision tasks. Due to the large size of these models, they are typically run on clusters of CPUs or GPUs. However, power requirements and…

Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have seen extensive application in domains such as social networks, bioinformatics, and recommendation systems. However, the irregularity and sparsity of graph data challenge traditional computing methods, which…

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled network edge has realized edge intelligence in several applications such as smart agriculture, smart hospitals, and smart factories by enabling…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters they contain leads to a high computational complexity and…

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are becoming increasingly popular as they overcome the limited applicability of prior neural networks. A GCN takes as input an arbitrarily structured graph and executes a series of layers which exploit…

The customizability of RISC-V makes it an attractive choice for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs). It can be achieved through instruction set extensions and corresponding custom functional units. Yet, efficiently exploiting these…

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…

This work presents CascadeCNN, an automated toolflow that pushes the quantisation limits of any given CNN model, aiming to perform high-throughput inference. A two-stage architecture tailored for any given CNN-FPGA pair is generated,…

Convolutional neural network inference on video data requires powerful hardware for real-time processing. Given the inherent coherence across consecutive frames, large parts of a video typically change little. By skipping identical image…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute in an event-based matter to achieve a more efficient computation than standard Neural Networks. In SNNs, neuronal outputs (i.e. activations) are not encoded with real-valued activations but with…