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Electromagnetic (EM) sensing is a wide-spread contactless examination technique in science, engineering and military. However, conventional sensing systems are mostly lack of intelligence, which not only require expensive hardware and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Hao-Yang Li , Han-Ting Zhao , Meng-Lin Wei , Heng-Xin Ruan , Ya Shuang , Tie Jun Cui , Lianlin Li

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained widespread popularity in the field of computer vision and image processing. Due to huge computational requirements of CNNs, dedicated hardware-based implementations are being explored to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Afzal Ahmad , Muhammad Adeel Pasha

Visual intelligence at the edge is becoming a growing necessity for low latency applications and situations where real-time decision is vital. Object detection, the first step in visual data analytics, has enjoyed significant improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George Plastiras , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Training of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a computationally intensive task and requires massive volumes of data transfer. Performing these operations with the conventional von Neumann architectures creates unmanageable time and power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Murat Onen , Brenden A. Butters , Emily Toomey , Tayfun Gokmen , Karl K. Berggren

We propose a novel neural architecture for computer vision -- WaveMix -- that is resource-efficient and yet generalizable and scalable. While using fewer trainable parameters, GPU RAM, and computations, WaveMix networks achieve comparable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pranav Jeevan , Kavitha Viswanathan , Anandu A S , Amit Sethi

Mixed-signal neuromorphic systems represent a promising solution for solving extreme-edge computing tasks without relying on external computing resources. Their spiking neural network circuits are optimized for processing sensory data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Arianna Rubino , Matteo Cartiglia , Melika Payvand , Giacomo Indiveri

Numerical computation is essential to many areas of artificial intelligence (AI), whose computing demands continue to grow dramatically, yet their continued scaling is jeopardized by the slowdown in Moore's law. Multi-function multi-way…

This paper presents a novel event-based eye-tracking system deployed on a resource-constrained microcontroller, addressing the challenges of real-time, low-latency, and low-power performance in embedded systems. The system leverages a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Marco Giordano , Pietro Bonazzi , Luca Benini , Michele Magno

Efficient and robust anisotropic mesh adaptation is crucial for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. The CFD Vision 2030 Study highlights the pressing need for this technology, particularly for simulations targeting…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Christos Tsolakis , Nikos Chrisochoides

The edge processing of deep neural networks (DNNs) is becoming increasingly important due to its ability to extract valuable information directly at the data source to minimize latency and energy consumption. Frequency-domain model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nastaran Darabi , Maeesha Binte Hashem , Hongyi Pan , Ahmet Cetin , Wilfred Gomes , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Neuromorphic computing architectures enable the dense co-location of memory and processing elements within a single circuit. This co-location removes the communication bottleneck of transferring data between separate memory and computing…

In the context of object detection, sliding-window classifiers and single-shot Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) meta-architectures typically yield multiple overlapping candidate windows with similar high scores around the true location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 David Oro , Carles Fernández , Xavier Martorell , Javier Hernando

Neural Networks (NNs) are steering a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the micro-edge. Examples include wireless sensors, wearables and cybernetic systems that collect data and process them to support real-world…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Sergey Mileiko , Thanasin Bunnam , Fei Xia , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev , Shidhartha Das

Why do security cameras, sensors, and siri use cloud servers instead of on-board computation? The lack of very-low-power, high-performance chips greatly limits the ability to field untethered edge devices. We present the NV-1, a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-01 W Hokenmaier , R Jurasek , E Bowen , R Granger , D Odom

Extreme edge devices or Internet-of-thing nodes require both ultra-low power always-on processing as well as the ability to do on-demand sampling and processing. Moreover, support for IoT applications like voice recognition, machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Vikram Jain , Sebastian Giraldo , Jaro De Roose , Linyan Mei , Bert Boons , Marian Verhelst

Energy-efficient mapless navigation is crucial for mobile robots as they explore unknown environments with limited on-board resources. Although the recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches have been successfully applied to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Guangzhi Tang , Neelesh Kumar , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

As the volume of image data grows, data-oriented cloud computing in Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems encounters latency issues. Task-oriented edge computing addresses this by shifting data analysis to the edge. However, limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiaqi Wu , Simin Chen , Zehua Wang , Wei Chen , Zijian Tian , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

Applications of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are promising for embedded systems with hard constraints on computing power. Contrary to conventional neural networks with the floating-point datatype, BNNs use binarized weights and activations…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mahdi Zahedi , Taha Shahroodi , Stephan Wong , Said Hamdioui

Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan-Ting Lin , Ching-Te Chiu , Jheng-Yi Chang , Shi-Zong Huang , Yu-Ting Li