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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a class of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) that employ the method of convolving input images with filter-kernels for object recognition and classification purposes. In this paper, we propose a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Hengameh Bagherian , Scott Skirlo , Yichen Shen , Huaiyu Meng , Vladimir Ceperic , Marin Soljacic

Convolutional Neural Networks have dramatically improved in recent years, surpassing human accuracy on certain problems and performance exceeding that of traditional computer vision algorithms. While the compute pattern in itself is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Michaela Blott , Thomas B. Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth OBrien , Yaman Umuroglu , Miriam Leeser

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable results in image classification for benchmark tasks and practical applications. The CNNs with deeper architectures have achieved even higher performance recently thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ryo Takahashi , Takashi Matsubara , Kuniaki Uehara

We propose a methodology for designing dependable Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) by extending the concepts of understandability, correctness, and validity that are crucial ingredients in existing certification standards. We apply the…

Weightless Neural Networks (WNNs) are a class of machine learning model which use table lookups to perform inference. This is in contrast with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which use multiply-accumulate operations. State-of-the-art WNN…

The computational complexity of neural networks for large scale or real-time applications necessitates hardware acceleration. Most approaches assume that the network architecture and parameters are unknown at design time, permitting usage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Stephen Tridgell , Martin Kumm , Martin Hardieck , David Boland , Duncan Moss , Peter Zipf , Philip H. W. Leong

This paper presents an algorithm for analytically calculating the weights and thresholds of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) without using standard training procedures. The algorithm enables the determination of CNN parameters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Polad Geidarov

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in computer vision and machine learning. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art networks are extremely compute and memory intensive which makes them unsuitable for mW-devices such as IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Renzo Andri , Lukas Cavigelli , Davide Rossi , Luca Benini

Learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with low bitwidth is challenging because performance may drop significantly after quantization. Prior arts often discretize the network weights by carefully tuning hyper-parameters of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Quan Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ping Luo , Ngai Wong

Quantizing deep networks with adaptive bit-widths is a promising technique for efficient inference across many devices and resource constraints. In contrast to static methods that repeat the quantization process and train different models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ximeng Sun , Rameswar Panda , Chun-Fu Chen , Naigang Wang , Bowen Pan , Kailash Gopalakrishnan , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko

Methods such as Layer Normalization (LN) and Batch Normalization (BN) have proven to be effective in improving the training of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). However, existing methods normalize using only the instantaneous information at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Cole Pospisil , Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye

Deep learning-based speech enhancement methods have significantly improved speech quality and intelligibility. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to be essential components of many high-performance models. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Dahan Wang , Xiaobin Rong , Shiruo Sun , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Jing Lu

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) techniques have proven to be very useful in image-based anomaly detection applications. CNN can be used as deep features extractor where other anomaly detection techniques are applied on these features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Sulaiman Aburakhia , Tareq Tayeh , Ryan Myers , Abdallah Shami

Wavelet neural network (WNN), which learns an unknown nonlinear mapping from the data, has been widely used in signal processing, and time-series analysis. However, challenges in constructing accurate wavelet bases and high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dunsheng Huang , Dong Shen , Lei Lu , Ying Tan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been established as the main workhorse in image data processing; nonetheless, they require large amounts of data to train, often produce overconfident predictions, and frequently lack the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sarah Harkins Dayton , Hayden Everett , Ioannis Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

Neural Networks are currently one of the most widely deployed machine learning algorithms. In particular, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are gaining popularity and are evaluated for deployment in safety critical applications such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Giulio Gambardella , Johannes Kappauf , Michaela Blott , Christoph Doehring , Martin Kumm , Peter Zipf , Kees Vissers

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used for vision-based tasks. Due to the high computational complexity and memory storage requirement, it is hard to directly deploy a full-precision CNN on embedded devices. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have begun to permeate all corners of electronic society (from voice recognition to scene generation) due to their high accuracy and machine efficiency per operation. At their core, CNN computations are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Kartik Hegde , Jiyong Yu , Rohit Agrawal , Mengjia Yan , Michael Pellauer , Christopher W. Fletcher

In this paper we introduce ShiftCNN, a generalized low-precision architecture for inference of multiplierless convolutional neural networks (CNNs). ShiftCNN is based on a power-of-two weight representation and, as a result, performs only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Denis A. Gudovskiy , Luca Rigazio

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly trained using a fixed spatial image size predetermined for a given model. Although trained on images of aspecific size, it is well established that CNNs can be used to evaluate a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Elad Hoffer , Berry Weinstein , Itay Hubara , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler , Daniel Soudry