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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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yuan Du , Li Du , Yilei Li , Junjie Su , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Autoregressive convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely exploited for sequence generation tasks such as audio synthesis, language modeling and neural machine translation. WaveNet is a deep autoregressive CNN composed of several…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Mojan Javaheripi , Paarth Neekhara , Ryan Kastner , Farinaz Koushanfar

The combination of Winograd's algorithm and systolic array architecture has demonstrated the capability of improving DSP efficiency in accelerating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGA platforms. However, handling arbitrary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Xinheng Liu , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Ashutosh Dhar , Deming Chen

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

This paper considers a convolutional neural network transformation that reduces computation complexity and thus speedups neural network processing. Usage of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is the standard approach to image recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Elena Limonova , Alexander Sheshkus , Dmitry Nikolaev

As a successful deep model applied in image super-resolution (SR), the Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN) has demonstrated superior performance to the previous hand-crafted models either in speed and restoration quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

In this paper, a scalable neural network hardware architecture for image segmentation is proposed. By sharing the same computing resources, both convolution and deconvolution operations are handled by the same process element array. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Lin Bai , Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang

With the development of hardware-optimized deployment of spiking neural networks (SNNs), SNN processors based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become a research hotspot due to their efficiency and flexibility. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hou Yue , Xiang Shuiying , Zou Tao , Huang Zhiquan , Shi Shangxuan , Guo Xingxing , Zhang Yahui , Zheng Ling , Hao Yue

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are rapidly gaining popularity in varied fields. Due to their increasingly deep and computationally heavy structures, it is difficult to deploy them on energy constrained mobile applications. Hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Akanksha Baranwal , Ishan Bansal , Roopal Nahar , K. Madhava Krishna

Machine-intelligence has become a driving factor in modern society. However, its demand outpaces the underlying electronic technology due to limitations given by fundamental physics such as capacitive charging of wires, but also by system…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Mario Miscuglio , Zibo Hu , Shurui Li , Jonathan George , Roberto Capanna , Philippe M. Bardet , Puneet Gupta , Volker J. Sorger

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely applied for low-level vision over the past five years. According to nature of different applications, designing appropriate CNN architectures is developed. However, customized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Chunwei Tian , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Chia-Wen Lin , David Zhang

This work presents a method to implement fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) on Pixel Processor Array (PPA) sensors, and demonstrates coarse segmentation and object localisation tasks. We design and train binarized FCN for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yanan Liu , Laurie Bose , Yao Lu , Piotr Dudek , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

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) 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

We present a novel deep learning architecture in which the convolution operation leverages heterogeneous kernels. The proposed HetConv (Heterogeneous Kernel-Based Convolution) reduces the computation (FLOPs) and the number of parameters as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great potential for numerous real-world machine learning applications, but performing inference in large CNNs in real-time remains a challenge. We have previously demonstrated that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-14 Bodo Rueckauer , Iulia-Alexandra Lungu , Yuhuang Hu , Michael Pfeiffer

A Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a relatively new classifier and one of the possible successors of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CapsNet maintains the spatial hierarchies between the features and outperforms CNNs at classifying images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Manufacturing-viable neuromorphic chips require novel computer architectures to achieve the massively parallel and efficient information processing the brain supports so effortlessly. Emerging event-based architectures are making this dream…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Lennart Bamberg , Arash Pourtaherian , Luc Waeijen , Anupam Chahar , Orlando Moreira

Convolution neural network (CNN), as one of the most powerful and popular technologies, has achieved remarkable progress for image and video classification since its invention in 1989. However, with the high definition video-data explosion,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Yue Jiang , Wenjia Zhang , Fan Yang , Zuyuan He