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Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on edge platforms necessitates efficient hardware acceleration. Any unnecessary data movement in such accelerators can unacceptably degrade performance and efficiency. To address this, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mark Horeni , Siddharth Joshi

Model compression and acceleration are attracting increasing attentions due to the demand for embedded devices and mobile applications. Research on efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims at removing feature redundancy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jinhua Liang , Tao Zhang , Guoqing Feng

Sparsity is an intrinsic property of convolutional neural network(CNN) and worth exploiting for CNN accelerators, but extra processing comes with hardware overhead, causing many architectures suffering from only minor profit. Meanwhile,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Wenhao Sun , Deng Liu , Zhiwei Zou , Wendi Sun , Yi Kang , Song Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Patrick Plagwitz , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Oliver Keszocze

The concept of compressing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is essential to use limited computation, power, and memory resources on embedded devices. However, existing methods achieve this objective at the cost of a drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Waqar Ahmed , Andrea Zunino , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Despite remarkable improvements in speed and accuracy, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) still typically operate as monolithic entities at inference time. This poses a challenge for resource-constrained practical applications, where both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Thanh Vu , Marc Eder , True Price , Jan-Michael Frahm

Systolic array accelerators execute CNNs with energy dominated by the switching activity of multiply accumulate (MAC) units. Although prior work exploits weight dependent MAC power for compression, existing methods often use global…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jiaxun Fang , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang

While convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on various classification/recognition tasks, they typically consist of a massive number of parameters. This results in significant memory requirement as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throughput, more advanced equalizers are crucial, to compensate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jonas Ney , Christoph Füllner , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Sebastian Randel , Norbert Wehn

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in resource-constrained devices in IoT applications. In order to reduce the computational complexity and memory footprint, the resource-constrained devices use fixed-point representation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Farhad Taheri , Siavash Bayat-Sarmadi , Hatame Mosanaei-Boorani , Reza Taheri

We present both a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accelerator architecture and a network compiler for FPGAs that outperforms all prior work. Instead of having generic processing elements that together process one layer at a time,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Mathew Hall , Vaughn Betz

Power delivery network (PDN) design is a nontrivial, time-intensive, and iterative task. Correct PDN design must account for considerations related to power bumps, currents, blockages, and signal congestion distribution patterns. This work…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Vidya A. Chhabria , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Embedded inference engines for convolutional networks must be parsimonious in memory bandwidth and buffer sizing to meet power and cost constraints. We present an analytical memory bandwidth model for loop-nest optimization targeting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Arthur Stoutchinin , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

Even though the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has shown superior results in the field of computer vision, it is still a challenging task to implement computer vision algorithms in real-time at the edge, especially using a low-cost IoT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chinthaka Gamanayake , Lahiru Jayasinghe , Benny Ng , Chau Yuen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely deployed in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition because of their high accuracy. However, large convolution operations are computing-intensive that often requires a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-10 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

The excellent performance of deep neural networks has enabled us to solve several automatization problems, opening an era of autonomous devices. However, current deep net architectures are heavy with millions of parameters and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Dat Thanh Tran , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

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

The computational workload involved in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is typically out of reach for low-power embedded devices. There are a large number of approximation techniques to address this problem. These methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Etienne Dupuis , David Novo , Ian O'Connor , Alberto Bosio

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks~(CNNs) offer remarkable performance of classifications and regressions in many high-dimensional problems and have been widely utilized in real-word cognitive applications. However, high computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Chuhan Min , Aosen Wang , Yiran Chen , Wenyao Xu , Xin Chen

On-device skin lesion analysis is constrained by the compute and energy cost of conventional CNN inference and by the need to update models as new patient data become available. Neuromorphic processors provide event-driven sparse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Haitian Wang , Xinyu Wang , Yiren Wang , Bo Miao , Atif Mansoor