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FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

Capsule networks(CapsNet) are recently proposed neural network models with new processing layers, specifically for entity representation and discovery of images. It is well known that CapsNet have some advantages over traditional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daoyuan Ye , Juntao Li , Yiting Shen

A Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a relatively new classifier and one of the possible successors of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CapsNet maintains the spatial hierarchies between the features and outperforms CNNs at classifying images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

We present a method for fast inference in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) by taking advantage of a key insight regarding the routing coefficients that link capsules between adjacent network layers. Since the routing coefficients are responsible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhen Zhao , Ashley Kleinhans , Gursharan Sandhu , Ishan Patel , K. P. Unnikrishnan

Capsule networks (CapsNets) were introduced to address convolutional neural networks limitations, learning object-centric representations that are more robust, pose-aware, and interpretable. They organize neurons into groups called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Riccardo Renzulli

Capsule Networks (CapsNets), recently proposed by the Google Brain team, have superior learning capabilities in machine learning tasks, like image classification, compared to the traditional CNNs. However, CapsNets require extremely intense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Beatrice Bussolino , Alessio Colucci , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

The basic computational unit in Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a capsule (vs. neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)). A capsule is a set of neurons, which form a vector. CapsNet is used for supervised classification of data and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pouya Shiri , Ramin Sharifi , Amirali Baniasadi

Redundancy is a persistent challenge in Capsule Networks (CapsNet),leading to high computational costs and parameter counts. Although previous works have introduced pruning after the initial capsule layer, dynamic routing's fully connected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jiawei Gong , Yuerong Xue , Jun Xu , Fanglin Chen , Xiaolin Huang

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators have proven successful in handling latency- and resource-critical deep neural network (DNN) inference tasks. Among the most computationally intensive operations in a neural network (NN) is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Marta Andronic , George A. Constantinides

We introduce Multi-Lane Capsule Networks (MLCN), which are a separable and resource efficient organization of Capsule Networks (CapsNet) that allows parallel processing, while achieving high accuracy at reduced cost. A MLCN is composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Vanderson Martins do Rosario , Edson Borin , Mauricio Breternitz

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) is a machine learning architecture proposed to overcome some of the shortcomings of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CapsNets have mainly outperformed CNNs in datasets where images are small and/or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Juan P. Vigueras-Guillén , Arijit Patra , Ola Engkvist , Frank Seeliger

Recent advances in Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have shown their superior learning capability, compared to the traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, the extremely high complexity of CapsNets limits their fast deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Muhammad Abudllah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Capsule Network is a promising concept in deep learning, yet its true potential is not fully realized thus far, providing sub-par performance on several key benchmark datasets with complex data. Drawing intuition from the success achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Vinoj Jayasundara , Sandaru Jayasekara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Suranga Seneviratne , Ranga Rodrigo

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are superior at modeling hierarchical spatial relationships but suffer from two critical limitations: high computational cost due to iterative dynamic routing and poor robustness under input corruptions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Canqun Xiang , Chen Yang , Jiaoyan Zhao

Capsule Network (CapsNet) classifier has several advantages over CNNs, including better detection of images containing overlapping categories and higher accuracy on transformed images. Despite the advantages, CapsNet is slow due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pouya Shiri , Amirali Baniasadi

Capsule Networks (CapsNets) have demonstrated to be a promising alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, they often fall short of state-of-the-art accuracies on large-scale high-dimensional datasets. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Aryan Mobiny , Pengyu Yuan , Pietro Antonio Cicalese , Hien Van Nguyen

Capsule networks were proposed as an alternative approach to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for learning object-centric representations, which can be leveraged for improved generalization and sample complexity. Unlike CNNs, capsule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Kevin Duarte , Miles Everett , Georgios Leontidis , Mubarak Shah

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used by different applications that are executed on a range of computer architectures, from IoT devices to supercomputers. The footprint of these networks is huge as well as their computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Chaim Baskin , Natan Liss , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Alex M. Bronshtein , Avi Mendelson

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely employed in many applications such as image classification, video analysis and speech recognition. Being compute-intensive, CNN computations are mainly accelerated by GPUs with high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Dong Wang , Jianjing An , Ke Xu