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Surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, human monitoring systems, and video retrieval are just few of the many applications in which 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are exploited. However, their extensive use is restricted by their high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Petros Toupas , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

Many modern video processing pipelines rely on edge-aware (EA) filtering methods. However, recent high-quality methods are challenging to run in real-time on embedded hardware due to their computational load. To this end, we propose an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-16 Manuel Eggimann , Christelle Gloor , Florian Scheidegger , Lukas Cavigelli , Michael Schaffner , Aljosa Smolic , Luca Benini

This research delves into sophisticated neural network frameworks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), and Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for improved analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nisanur Alici , Kayode Inadagbo , Murat Isik

FPGAs have been shown to be a promising platform for deploying Quantised Neural Networks (QNNs) with high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient inference. However, the complexity of modern deep-learning models limits the performance on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Changhong Li , Biswajit Basu , Shreejith Shanker

The application of TensorFlow pre-trained models in deep learning is explored, with an emphasis on practical guidance for tasks such as image classification and object detection. The study covers modern architectures, including ResNet,…

Distributed training frameworks, like TensorFlow, have been proposed as a means to reduce the training time of deep learning models by using a cluster of GPU servers. While such speedups are often desirable---e.g., for rapidly evaluating…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Shijian Li , Robert J. Walls , Lijie Xu , Tian Guo

Scientific computing is at the core of many High-Performance Computing applications, including computational flow dynamics. Because of the uttermost importance to simulate increasingly larger computational models, hardware acceleration is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Tom Hogervorst , Tong Dong Qiu , Giacomo Marchiori , Alf Birger , Markus Blatt , Razvan Nane

As machine learning (ML) has seen increasing adoption in safety-critical domains (e.g., autonomous vehicles), the reliability of ML systems has also grown in importance. While prior studies have proposed techniques to enable efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zitao Chen , Niranjhana Narayanan , Bo Fang , Guanpeng Li , Karthik Pattabiraman , Nathan DeBardeleben

Large-scale deep learning benefits from an emerging class of AI accelerators. Some of these accelerators' designs are general enough for compute-intensive applications beyond AI and Cloud TPU is one such example. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kun Yang , Yi-Fan Chen , Georgios Roumpos , Chris Colby , John Anderson

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation consuming, are widely required for complex Artificial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chaoyang Zhu , Kejie Huang , Shuyuan Yang , Ziqi Zhu , Hejia Zhang , Haibin Shen

We outline the development of a data science module within OpenFOAM which allows for the in-situ deployment of trained deep learning architectures for general-purpose predictive tasks. This module is constructed with the TensorFlow C API…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Romit Maulik , Himanshu Sharma , Saumil Patel , Bethany Lusch , Elise Jennings

FPGA programming is more complex as compared to Central Processing Units (CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The coding languages to define the abstraction of Register Transfer Level (RTL) in High Level Synthesis (HLS) for FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Rourab Paul , Alberto Ottimo , Marco Danelutto

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the Large Language Models (LLMs), have profoundly affected our daily work and communication forms. However, it is still a challenge to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Mingqiang Huang , Ao Shen , Kai Li , Haoxiang Peng , Boyu Li , Yupeng Su , Hao Yu

We describe TensorFlow-Serving, a system to serve machine learning models inside Google which is also available in the cloud and via open-source. It is extremely flexible in terms of the types of ML platforms it supports, and ways to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Christopher Olston , Noah Fiedel , Kiril Gorovoy , Jeremiah Harmsen , Li Lao , Fangwei Li , Vinu Rajashekhar , Sukriti Ramesh , Jordan Soyke

Due to the emergence of embedded applications in image and video processing, communication and cryptography, improvement of pictorial information for better human perception like deblurring, denoising in several fields such as satellite…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Chandrajit Pal , Avik Kotal , Asit Samanta , Amlan Chakrabarti , Ranjan Ghosh

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the leading hardware accelerator for deep learning applications and are used widely in training and inference of transformers; transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Andy He , Darren Key , Mason Bulling , Andrew Chang , Skyler Shapiro , Everett Lee

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , David Han , Andrew Bitar , Roberto DiCecco , Shane OConnell , Nitika Shanker , Joseph Chu , Ian Prins , Joshua Fender , Andrew C. Ling , Gordon R. Chiu

Custom hardware accelerators for Deep Neural Networks are increasingly popular: in fact, the flexibility and performance offered by FPGAs are well-suited to the computational effort and low latency constraints required by many image…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Serena Curzel , Nicolò Ghielmetti , Michele Fiorito , Fabrizio Ferrandi

FPGAs have found increasing adoption in data center applications since a new generation of high-level tools have become available which noticeably reduce development time for FPGA accelerators and still provide high quality of results.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Marius Meyer , Tobias Kenter , Christian Plessl