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A new field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulation platform is proposed to accelerate fault tolerance analysis of inference accelerators of convolutional neural networks (CNN). For a given CNN model, hardware accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Filip Masar , Vojtech Mrazek , Lukas Sekanina

Modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are complex, encompassing millions of parameters. Their deployment exerts computational, storage and energy demands, particularly on embedded platforms. Existing approaches to prune or sparsify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Amir H. Ashouri , Tarek S. Abdelrahman , Alwyn Dos Remedios

Training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs)on embedded platforms to support on-device learning is earning vital importance in recent days. Designing flexible training hard-ware is much more challenging than inference hardware, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Shreyas Kolala Venkataramanaiah , Yufei Ma , Shihui Yin , Eriko Nurvithadhi , Aravind Dasu , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful state-of-the-art method for image classification tasks. One drawback however is the high computational complexity and high memory consumption of CNNs which makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Rishabh Goyal , Joaquin Vanschoren , Victor van Acht , Stephan Nijssen

Binarized Neural Network (BNN) removes bitwidth redundancy in classical CNN by using a single bit (-1/+1) for network parameters and intermediate representations, which has greatly reduced the off-chip data transfer and storage overhead.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Fu , Shilin Zhu , Hao Su , Ching-En Lee , Jishen Zhao

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

Image Understanding is becoming a vital feature in ever more applications ranging from medical diagnostics to autonomous vehicles. Many applications demand for embedded solutions that integrate into existing systems with tight real-time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 David Gschwend

Implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has emerged as a promising alternative to GPUs, offering lower latency, greater power efficiency and greater flexibility. However, this development…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Philippe Magalhães , Virginie Fresse , Benoît Suffran , Olivier Alata

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Paul Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Matthew Mattina

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction in the field of machine learning, particularly due to their high accuracy in visual recognition. Recent works have pushed the performance of GPU implementations of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Roberto DiCecco , Griffin Lacey , Jasmina Vasiljevic , Paul Chow , Graham Taylor , Shawki Areibi

We present a full-stack optimization framework for accelerating inference of CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) and validate the approach with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) implementations. By jointly optimizing CNN models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Bradley McDanel , Sai Qian Zhang , H. T. Kung , Xin Dong

Neural Network designs are quite diverse, from VGG-style to ResNet-style, and from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers. Towards the design of efficient accelerators, many works have adopted a dataflow-based, inter-layer pipelined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, the large volume of intermediate results generated during inference poses a significant challenge to the accelerator design for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Fanrong Li , Jian Cheng

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

Energy efficiency and memory footprint of a convolutional neural network (CNN) implemented on a CNN inference accelerator depend on many factors, including a weight quantization strategy (i.e., data types and bit-widths) and mapping (i.e.,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jan Klhufek , Miroslav Safar , Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in numerous vision tasks. However, their high processing requirements necessitate efficient hardware acceleration to meet the application's performance targets. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Petros Toupas , Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

In today's world, a vast amount of data is being generated by edge devices that can be used as valuable training data to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms in terms of the achieved accuracy or to reduce the compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Aditya Rajagopal , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Federico Nicolas Peccia , Luciano Ferreyro , Alejandro Furfaro