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We present a high-speed, energy-efficient Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture utilising the capabilities of a unique class of devices known as analog Focal Plane Sensor Processors (FPSP), in which the sensor and the processor…

Computer vision performances have been significantly improved in recent years by Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN). Currently, applications using CNN algorithms are deployed mainly on general purpose hardwares, such as CPUs, GPUs or FPGAs.…

FPGA becomes a popular technology for implementing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in recent years. Most CNN applications on FPGA are domain-specific, e.g., detecting objects from specific categories, in which commonly-used CNN models…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently demonstrated superior quality for computational imaging applications. Therefore, they have great potential to revolutionize the image pipelines on cameras and displays. However, it is…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful classification tools in tasks that range from check reading to medical diagnosis, reaching close to human perception, and in some cases surpassing it. However, the problems to…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the dominant neural network architecture for solving many state-of-the-art (SOA) visual processing tasks. Even though Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are most often used in training and…

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Recent researches on neural network have shown significant advantage in machine learning over traditional algorithms based on handcrafted features and models. Neural network is now widely adopted in regions like image, speech and video…

In this paper, we propose different alternatives for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) segmentation, addressing inference processes on computing architectures composed by multiple Edge TPUs. Specifically, we compare the inference…

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is an important deep learning method. The convolution operation takes a large proportion of the total execution time for CNN. Feature maps for convolution operation are usually sparse. Multiplications and…

Custom dataflow Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference accelerators on FPGA are tailored to a specific CNN topology and store parameters in On-Chip Memory (OCM), resulting in high energy efficiency and low inference latency. However,…

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…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are currently the dominating programmable architecture for Deep Learning (DL) accelerators. The adoption of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in DL accelerators is however getting momentum. In this…

We present a compilation flow for the generation of CNN inference accelerators on FPGAs. The flow translates a frozen model into OpenCL kernels with the TVM compiler and uses the Intel OpenCL SDK to compile to an FPGA bitstream. We improve…

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…

During the last years, algorithms known as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) had become increasingly popular, expanding its application range to several areas. In particular, the image processing field has experienced a remarkable…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require both intensive computation and frequent memory access, which lead to a low processing speed and large power dissipation. Although the characteristics of the different layers in a CNN are…

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…

Single computation engines have become a popular design choice for FPGA-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enabling the deployment of diverse models without fabric reconfiguration. This flexibility, however, often comes with…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) combine large amounts of parallelizable computation with frequent memory access. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can achieve low latency and high throughput CNN inference by implementing dataflow…