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Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have enabled its deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, fostering innovative applications such as intelligent environmental sensing. However, these devices, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yi Hu , Jinhang Zuo , Eddie Zhang , Bob Iannucci , Carlee Joe-Wong

Keyword spotting (KWS) is beneficial for voice-based user interactions with low-power devices at the edge. The edge devices are usually always-on, so edge computing brings bandwidth savings and privacy protection. The devices typically have…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jingyi Wang , Shengchen Li

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are well suited for solving sequence tasks in resource-constrained systems due to their expressivity and low computational requirements. However, there is still a need to bridge the gap between what RNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Anand Subramoney , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Mark Schöne , Christian Mayr , David Kappel

In the human activity recognition research area, prior studies predominantly concentrate on leveraging advanced algorithms on public datasets to enhance recognition performance, little attention has been paid to executing real-time kitchen…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Juan Felipe Vargas , Bo Zhou , Agnes Grünerbl , Paul Lukowicz

Energy disaggregation, known in the literature as Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), is the task of inferring the power demand of the individual appliances given the aggregate power demand recorded by a single smart meter which monitors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

Third-generation nanopore sequencers offer a feature called selective sequencing or 'Read Until' that allows genomic reads to be analyzed in real-time and abandoned halfway, if not belonging to a genomic region of 'interest'. This selective…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Po Jui Shih , Hassaan Saadat , Sri Parameswaran , Hasindu Gamaarachchi

This paper investigates the energy savings that near-subthreshold processors can obtain in edge AI applications and proposes strategies to improve them while maintaining the accuracy of the application. The selected processors deploy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zichao Shen , Neil Howard , Jose Nunez-Yanez

This paper presents a novel event-based eye-tracking system deployed on a resource-constrained microcontroller, addressing the challenges of real-time, low-latency, and low-power performance in embedded systems. The system leverages a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Marco Giordano , Pietro Bonazzi , Luca Benini , Michele Magno

Parallelizing Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks is a challenging task, as the training procedure of GRU is inherently sequential. Prior efforts to parallelize GRU have largely focused on conventional parallelization strategies such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Gordon Euhyun Moon , Eric C. Cyr

Eating speed is an important indicator that has been widely investigated in nutritional studies. The relationship between eating speed and several intake-related problems such as obesity, diabetes, and oral health has received increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Chunzhuo Wang , T. Sunil Kumar , Walter De Raedt , Guido Camps , Hans Hallez , Bart Vanrumste

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown clear superiority in sequence modeling, particularly the ones with gated units, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU). However, the dynamic properties behind the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Zhiyuan Tang , Ying Shi , Dong Wang , Yang Feng , Shiyue Zhang

In this work, we address the need for efficient and formally stable Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in environments with limited computational resources by analyzing the stability of the Minimal Gated Unit (MGU) network, a lightweight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Stefano De Carli , Davide Previtali , Mirko Mazzoleni , Fabio Previdi

In standard generative deep learning models, such as autoencoders or GANs, the size of the parameter set is proportional to the complexity of the generated data distribution. A significant challenge is to deploy resource-hungry deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shreshth Tuli , Shikhar Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

This paper presents an accurate and fast algorithm for road segmentation using convolutional neural network (CNN) and gated recurrent units (GRU). For autonomous vehicles, road segmentation is a fundamental task that can provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang

The recent developments in wearable devices and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) allow real-time monitoring and recording of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, continuous monitoring of ECG signals is challenging in low-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Berken Utku Demirel , Islam Abdelsalam Bayoumy , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

With the introduction of shared spectrum sensing and beam-forming based multi-antenna transceivers, 5G networks demand spectrum sensing to identify opportunities in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Narrow beam-forming makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Piyush Sahoo , Romesh Rajoria , Shivam Chandhok , S. J. Darak , Danilo Pau , Hem-Dutt Dabral

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable and mobile sensors has gained momentum in last few years, in various fields, such as, healthcare, surveillance, education, entertainment. Nowadays, Edge Computing has emerged to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Preeti Agarwal , Mansaf Alam

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous in machine learning, but their energy consumption remains problematically high. An effective strategy for reducing such consumption is supply-voltage reduction, but if done too…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Hao-Lun Sun , Lei Hsiung , Nandhini Chandramoorthy , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

Every year, humanity loses about 1.5 million persons due to diabetic disease. Therefore continuous monitoring of diabetes is highly needed, but the conventional approach, i.e., fingertip pricking, causes mental and physical pain to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Abdelrhman Y. Soliman , Ahmed M. Nor , Octavian Fratu , Simona Halunga , Osama A. Omer , Ahmed S. Mubark

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) enables efficient, lowcost, and privacy preserving machine learning inference directly on microcontroller units (MCUs) connected to sensors. Optimizing models for these constrained environments is crucial.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Riya Samanta , Bidyut Saha , Soumya K. Ghosh , Ram Babu Roy