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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

Machine intelligence, especially using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has become a large area of research over the past years. Increasingly sophisticated hardware accelerators are proposed that exploit e.g. the sparsity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Andreas Bytyn , René Ahlsdorf , Rainer Leupers , Gerd Ascheid

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Conventional computing architectures face challenges in meeting the demanding processing requirements of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ali Sedaghatgoo , Amir M. Hajisadeghi , Mahmoud Momtazpour , Nader Bagherzadeh

The convolutional neural network (CNN) is one of the most commonly used architectures for computer vision tasks. The key building block of a CNN is the convolutional kernel that aggregates information from the pixel neighborhood and shares…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianyu Ma , Alan Q. Wang , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

Large-scale deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used in machine learning applications. While CNNs involve huge complexity, VLSI (ASIC and FPGA) chips that deliver high-density integration of computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Xushen Han , Dajiang Zhou , Shihao Wang , Shinji Kimura

In this paper, we introduce a simple, yet powerful pipeline for medical image segmentation that combines Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) with Fully Convolutional Residual Networks (FC-ResNets). We propose and examine a design that takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Michal Drozdzal , Gabriel Chartrand , Eugene Vorontsov , Lisa Di Jorio , An Tang , Adriana Romero , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Samuel Kadoury

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks but rely on tremendous computational cost. To solve this problem, existing approaches either compress well-trained large-scale models or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Chen Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Yujun Shen

Recent efforts have shown machine learning to be useful for the prediction of nonlinear fluid dynamics. Predictive accuracy is often a central motivation for employing neural networks, but the pattern recognition central to the network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Shizheng Wen , Michael W. Lee , Kai M. Kruger Bastos , Earl H. Dowell

The evolution of IoT based smart applications demand porting of artificial intelligence algorithms to the edge computing devices. CNNs form a large part of these AI algorithms. Systolic array based CNN acceleration is being widely advocated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Hazoor Ahmad , Muhammad Tanvir , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Usama Javed , Rehan Hafiz , Muhammad Shafique

Antenna arrays are widely used in wireless communication, radar systems, radio astronomy, and military defense to enhance signal strength, directivity, and interference suppression. We introduce a deep learning-based optimization approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 David Lu , Lior Maman , Jackson Earls , Amir Boag , Pierre Baldi

This paper proposes a method to modify traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into interpretable CNNs, in order to clarify knowledge representations in high conv-layers of CNNs. In an interpretable CNN, each filter in a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Quanshi Zhang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Spatial and spectral approaches are two major approaches for image processing tasks such as image classification and object recognition. Among many such algorithms, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Shin Fujieda , Kohei Takayama , Toshiya Hachisuka

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most important architectures in deep learning. The fundamental building block of a CNN is a trainable filter, represented as a discrete grid, used to perform convolution on discrete input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dario Coscia , Laura Meneghetti , Nicola Demo , Giovanni Stabile , Gianluigi Rozza

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a prominent type of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for solving machine learning tasks. To improve the performance and energy efficiency of CNN inference, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

In most convolution neural networks (CNNs), downsampling hidden layers is adopted for increasing computation efficiency and the receptive field size. Such operation is commonly so-called pooling. Maximation and averaging over sliding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Hao Zhang , Jianwei Ma

While coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have emerged as promising programmable accelerator architectures, pipelining applications running on CGRAs is required to ensure high maximum clock frequencies. Current CGRA compilers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jackson Melchert , Yuchen Mei , Kalhan Koul , Qiaoyi Liu , Mark Horowitz , Priyanka Raina

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for image recognition and text analysis, and have been suggested for application on one-dimensional data as a way to reduce the need for pre-processing steps. Pre-processing is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ine L. Jernelv , Dag Roar Hjelme , Yuji Matsuura , Astrid Aksnes

Large-scale floating-point matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in many scientific and engineering applications. Most existing work only focus on accelerating matrix multiplication on FPGA by adopting a linear systolic array. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Junzhong Shen , Yuran Qiao , You Huang , Mei Wen , Chunyuan Zhang

In order to follow the ever-growing computational complexity and data intensity of state-of-the-art AI models, new computing paradigms are being proposed. These paradigms aim at achieving high energy efficiency by mitigating the Von Neumann…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Cristian Sestito , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis