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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are becoming a common presence in many applications and services, due to their superior recognition accuracy. They are increasingly being used on mobile devices, many times just by porting large models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Valentin Radu , Kuba Kaszyk , Yuan Wen , Jack Turner , Jose Cano , Elliot J. Crowley , Bjorn Franke , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Even though the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has shown superior results in the field of computer vision, it is still a challenging task to implement computer vision algorithms in real-time at the edge, especially using a low-cost IoT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chinthaka Gamanayake , Lahiru Jayasinghe , Benny Ng , Chau Yuen

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

A well-trained Convolutional Neural Network can easily be pruned without significant loss of performance. This is because of unnecessary overlap in the features captured by the network's filters. Innovations in network architecture such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Aaditya Prakash , James Storer , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are indispensable to state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. However, they are still rarely deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable gadgets, where vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Tien-Ju Yang , Yu-Hsin Chen , Vivienne Sze

Though network pruning receives popularity in reducing the complexity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains an open issue to concurrently maintain model accuracy as well as achieve significant speedups on general CPUs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mingbao Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Yuchao Li , Bohong Chen , Fei Chao , Mengdi Wang , Shen Li , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

Currently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used to solve all kinds of problems in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence due to their learning and adaptation capabilities. However, most successful DCNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior , Gary G. Yen

Most neural network pruning methods, such as filter-level and layer-level prunings, prune the network model along one dimension (depth, width, or resolution) solely to meet a computational budget. However, such a pruning policy often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Long Chen , Jinming Hu , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

Network pruning reduces the size of neural networks by removing (pruning) neurons such that the performance drop is minimal. Traditional pruning approaches focus on designing metrics to quantify the usefulness of a neuron which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shehryar Malik , Muhammad Umair Haider , Omer Iqbal , Murtaza Taj

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields. However, training an excellent CNN is practically a trial-and-error process that consumes a tremendous amount of time and computer resources. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Dongyu Liu , Weiwei Cui , Kai Jin , Yuxiao Guo , Huamin Qu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

CNN model is a popular method for imagery analysis, so it could be utilized to recognize handwritten digits based on MNIST datasets. For higher recognition accuracy, various CNN models with different fully connected layer sizes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Mengyu Chen

Over the last century, deep learning models have become the state-of-the-art for solving complex computer vision problems. These modern computer vision models have millions of parameters, which presents two major challenges: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Florian Merkle , David Weber , Pascal Schöttle , Stephan Schlögl , Martin Nocker

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang