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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhendi Gong , Andrew P. French , Guoping Qiu , Xin Chen

In Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) information flows across a small neighbourhood of each pixel of an image, preventing long-range integration of features before reaching deep layers in the network. We propose a novel architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Federica Freddi , Jezabel R Garcia , Michael Bromberg , Sepehr Jalali , Da-Shan Shiu , Alvin Chua , Alberto Bernacchia

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

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lukas Baischer , Matthias Wess , Nima TaheriNejad

Convolutional neural network (CNN) offers significant accuracy in image detection. To implement image detection using CNN in the internet of things (IoT) devices, a streaming hardware accelerator is proposed. The proposed accelerator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Li Du , Yuan Du , Yilei Li , Mau-Chung Frank Chang

Convolutional blocks have played a crucial role in advancing medical image segmentation by excelling in dense prediction tasks. However, their inability to effectively capture long-range dependencies has limited their performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Siddhartha Mallick , Aayushman Ghosh , Jayanta Paul , Jaya Sil

Benefitted from its great success on many tasks, deep learning is increasingly used on low-computational-cost devices, e.g. smartphone, embedded devices, etc. To reduce the high computational and memory cost, in this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xijun Wang , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Computational complexity and storage requirements are crucial factors influencing the performance and efficiency of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained environments. This paper presents a high-performance embedded…

Despite the initial belief that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are driven by shapes to perform visual recognition tasks, recent evidence suggests that texture bias in CNNs provides higher performing models when learning on large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Reza Azad , Abdur R Fayjie , Claude Kauffman , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz

The reconfigurability, energy-efficiency, and massive parallelism on FPGAs make them one of the best choices for implementing efficient deep learning accelerators. However, state-of-art implementations seldom consider the balance between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Feng Shi , Haochen Li , Yuhe Gao , Benjamin Kuschner , Song-Chun Zhu

The unprecedented accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) across a broad range of AI tasks has led to their widespread deployment in mobile and embedded settings. In a pursuit for high-performance and energy-efficient inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Stylianos I. Venieris , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Nicholas D. Lane

The success of CNN-based architecture on image classification in learning and extracting features made them so popular these days, but the task of image classification becomes more challenging when we apply state of art models to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ashkan Ganj , Mohsen Ebadpour , Mahdi Darvish , Hamid Bahador

Transformer neural networks (TNN) have been widely utilized on a diverse range of applications, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV). Their widespread adoption has been primarily driven…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

Designing hardware accelerators for deep neural networks (DNNs) has been much desired. Nonetheless, most of these existing accelerators are built for either convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Siyuan Lu , Meiqi Wang , Shuang Liang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

This paper studies inference acceleration using distributed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in collaborative edge computing network. To avoid inference accuracy loss in inference task partitioning, we propose receptive field-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

Deep Neural Networks have flourished at an unprecedented pace in recent years. They have achieved outstanding accuracy in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, medicine or economics. Specifically, Convolutional Neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Robert Guirado , Hyoukjun Kwon , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal , Tushar Krishna

Accelerating the deep learning inference is very important for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method to fuse the layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which applies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Xueying Wang , Guangli Li , Xiao Dong , Jiansong Li , Lei Liu , Xiaobing Feng

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable success in computer vision. However, deep neural networks require large computing resources to achieve high performance. Although depthwise separable convolution can be an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yunyang Xiong , Hyunwoo J. Kim , Varsha Hedau