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This paper summarizes the idea of Low-Cost Interlinked Subarrays (LISA), which was published in HPCA 2016, and examines the work's significance and future potential. Contemporary systems perform bulk data movement movement inefficiently, by…

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This paper presents SleepViT, a custom accelerator ASIC for real-time, low-power sleep stage classification in wearable devices. At the core of SleepViT is a lightweight vision transformer model specifically optimized for…

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Deep learning using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is quickly becoming the state-of-the-art for challenging computer vision applications. However, deep learning's power consumption and bandwidth requirements currently limit its…

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This review examines the rapidly evolving landscape of ultra-low-power edge processors, covering heterogeneous Systems-on-Chips (SoCs), neural accelerators, near-sensor and in-sensor architectures, and emerging dataflow and memory-centric…

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This paper proposes a mechanism to accelerate and optimize the energy consumption of a face detection software based on Haar-like cascading classifiers, taking advantage of the features of low-cost Asymmetric Multicore Processors (AMPs)…

Recent advances in integrated photonics enable the implementation of reconfigurable, high-bandwidth, and low energy-per-bit interconnects in next-generation data centers. We propose and evaluate an Optically Connected Memory (OCM)…

Embedded vision systems need efficient and robust image processing algorithms to perform real-time, with resource-constrained hardware. This research investigates image processing algorithms, specifically edge detection, corner detection,…

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Optical neural networks (ONNs) have demonstrated record-breaking potential in high-performance neuromorphic computing due to their ultra-high execution speed and low energy consumption. However, current learning protocols fail to provide…

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Efficiency and robustness are the essential criteria for the visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system. To process massive visual data, the high cost on CPU resources and computation latency limits VIO's possibility in integration with other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yao He , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Inverse-designed nanophotonic devices offer promising solutions for analog optical computation. High-density photonic integration is critical for scaling such architectures toward more complex computational tasks and large-scale…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Joel Sved , Shijie Song , Liwei Li , George Li , Debin Meng , Xiaoke Yi

Cameras are the defacto sensor. The growing demand for real-time and low-power computer vision, coupled with trends towards high-efficiency heterogeneous systems, has given rise to a wide range of image processing acceleration techniques at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Amrita Mazumdar , Thierry Moreau , Sung Kim , Meghan Cowan , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze , Mark Oskin , Visvesh Sathe

Photonic neural networks have been considered as the promising candidates for next-generation neuromorphic computation, aiming to break both the power consumption wall and processing speed boundary of state-to-date digital computing…

Simple graph algorithms such as PageRank have been the target of numerous hardware accelerators. Yet, there also exist much more complex graph mining algorithms for problems such as clustering or maximal clique listing. These algorithms are…

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are increasingly preferred over full-precision Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) to reduce the memory and computational requirements of inference processing with minimal accuracy drop. BNNs convert CNN model…

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In this letters, an energy-efficient integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN)-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems is proposed to facilitate wide coverage and real-time 6G services. For…

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The escalating challenges of managing vast sensor-generated data, particularly in audio applications, necessitate innovative solutions. Current systems face significant computational and storage demands, especially in real-time applications…

While lightweight ViT framework has made tremendous progress in image super-resolution, its uni-dimensional self-attention modeling, as well as homogeneous aggregation scheme, limit its effective receptive field (ERF) to include more…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in various computer vision applications. In recent years, FPGA-based CNN accelerators have been proposed for optimizing performance and power efficiency. Most…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jung-Woo Chang , Keon-Woo Kang , Suk-Ju Kang

Due to the very rapidly growing use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in real-world applications related to machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), several hardware accelerator de-signs for ANNs have been proposed recently. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Supreeth Mysore Shivanandamurthy , Ishan. G. Thakkar , Sayed Ahmad Salehi

We present an approach to accelerating a wide variety of image processing operators. Our approach uses a fully-convolutional network that is trained on input-output pairs that demonstrate the operator's action. After training, the original…

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