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As a successful deep model applied in image super-resolution (SR), the Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN) has demonstrated superior performance to the previous hand-crafted models either in speed and restoration quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

The demand for high speed data transmission has increased rapidly, leading to advanced optical communication techniques. In the past few years, multiple equalizers based on neural network (NN) have been proposed to recover signal from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Qingyi Zhou , Fan Zhang , Chuanchuan Yang

Recent advances in algorithm-hardware co-design for deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their potential in automatically designing neural architectures and hardware designs. Nevertheless, it is still a challenging optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hongxiang Fan , Martin Ferianc , Zhiqiang Que , He Li , Shuanglong Liu , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used as a powerful tool to solve many problems of machine learning and computer vision. In this paper, we aim to provide insight on the property of convolutional neural networks, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Diogo Almeida , Honglak Lee

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing machine learning, but they present significant computational challenges. Recently, many FPGA-based accelerators have been proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of CNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yongming Shen , Michael Ferdman , Peter Milder

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require a large number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations. To meet real-time constraints, they often need to be executed on specialized accelerators composed of an on-chip memory and a processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Benjamin Husson , Mohammed Belcaïd , Thomas Carle , Claire Pagetti

As designing appropriate Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture in the context of a given application usually involves heavy human works or numerous GPU hours, the research community is soliciting the architecture-neutral CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaohan Ding , Yuchen Guo , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant interest for applications such as citation network analysis and drug discovery due to their ability to apply machine learning techniques on graph-structured data. GNNs typically employ a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

We propose Attentive Regularization (AR), a method to constrain the activation maps of kernels in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to specific regions of interest (ROIs). Each kernel learns a location of specialization along with its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kashyap Chitta

Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on edge devices has recently achieved a remarkable performance in image classification and object detection applications. This paper proposes an efficient and scalable CNN-based SoC-FPGA…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

This paper aims to accelerate the test-time computation of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike existing methods that are designed for approximating linear filters or linear responses, our method takes the nonlinear units into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Xiangyu Zhang , Jianhua Zou , Xiang Ming , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

During the last decade, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the de facto standard for various Computer Vision and Machine Learning operations. CNNs are feed-forward Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-10 Serkan Kiranyaz , Onur Avci , Osama Abdeljaber , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj , Daniel J. Inman

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been the centerpiece of many applications including but not limited to computer vision, speech processing, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, the computationally expensive convolution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Armin Mehrabian , Yousra Al-Kabani , Volker J Sorger , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Mixed-signal artificial neural networks (ANNs) that employ analog matrix-multiplication accelerators can achieve higher speed and improved power efficiency. Though analog computing is known to be susceptible to noise and device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Joseph Ulseth , Zheyuan Zhu , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

Increasingly, convolution neural network (CNN) based super resolution models have been proposed for better reconstruction results, but their large model size and complicated structure inhibit their real-time hardware implementation. Current…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Dun-Hao Yang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

The performance of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) depends on its hyperparameters, like the number of layers, kernel sizes, or the learning rate for example. Especially in smaller networks and applications with limited computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Lukas Hahn , Lutz Roese-Koerner , Klaus Friedrichs , Anton Kummert

With the rapidly growing use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in real-world applications related to machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), several hardware accelerator designs for CNN inference and training have been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Supreeth Mysore Shivanandamurthy , Ishan. G. Thakkar , Sayed Ahmad Salehi

With increasing diversity in Deep Neural Network(DNN) models in terms of layer shapes and sizes, the research community has been investigating flexible/reconfigurable accelerator substrates. This line of research has opened up two…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Ananda Samajdar , Michael Pellauer , Tushar Krishna

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their ability to solve problems in many fields and with accuracy that was not possible before. However, this comes with extensive computational requirements, which made…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Sadiq M. Sait , Aiman El-Maleh , Mohammad Altakrouri , Ahmad Shawahna

At present, designing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures requires both human expertise and labor. New architectures are handcrafted by careful experimentation or modified from a handful of existing networks. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Bowen Baker , Otkrist Gupta , Nikhil Naik , Ramesh Raskar