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Inference of standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on FPGAs often incurs high latency and a long initiation interval due to the deep nested loops required to densely convolve every input pixel regardless of its feature value.…

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Computer vision is often performed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are compute-intensive and challenging to deploy on power-contrained systems such as mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. CNNs are compute-intensive…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are becoming more and more important for solving challenging and critical problems in many fields. CNN inference applications have been deployed in safety-critical systems, which may suffer from soft…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Kai Zhao , Sheng Di , Sihuan Li , Xin Liang , Yujia Zhai , Jieyang Chen , Kaiming Ouyang , Franck Cappello , Zizhong Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

The unprecedented accuracy of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) across a broad range of AI tasks has led to their widespread deployment in mobile and embedded settings. In a pursuit for high-performance and energy-efficient inference,…

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Low-cardinality activations permit an algorithm based on fetching the inference values from pre-calculated lookup tables instead of calculating them every time. This algorithm can have extensions, some of which offer abilities beyond those…

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A novel energy-efficient edge computing paradigm is proposed for real-time deep learning-based image upsampling applications. State-of-the-art deep learning solutions for image upsampling are currently trained using either resize or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ian Colbert , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

In this paper, we propose a multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture optimized for a low power automotive grade SoC. We introduce a network based on a unified architecture where the encoder is shared among the two tasks…

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One of the crucial tasks in computer science is the processing time reduction of various data types, i.e., images, which is important for different fields -- from medicine and logistics to virtual shopping. Compared to classical computers,…

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Brain tumor classification using MRI images is critical in medical diagnostics, where early and accurate detection significantly impacts patient outcomes. While recent advancements in deep learning (DL), particularly CNNs, have shown…

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It is widely acknowledged that trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have different levels of sensitivity to signals of different frequency. In particular, a number of empirical studies have documented CNNs sensitivity to…

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Toward a deeper understanding on the inner work of deep neural networks, we investigate CNN (convolutional neural network) using DCN (deconvolutional network) and randomization technique, and gain new insights for the intrinsic property of…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently adopted to solve an ever greater number of problems, ranging from speech recognition to image classification and segmentation. The large amount of processing required by CNNs calls for…

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We propose a new model for unsupervised document embedding. Leading existing approaches either require complex inference or use recurrent neural networks (RNN) that are difficult to parallelize. We take a different route and develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Chundi Liu , Shunan Zhao , Maksims Volkovs

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved impressive success in computer vision during the past few decades. The image convolution operation helps CNNs to get good performance on image-related tasks. However, the image convolution has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Hengyue Pan , Yixin Chen , Xin Niu , Wenbo Zhou , Dongsheng Li

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on inertial data is an increasingly diffused task on embedded devices, from smartphones to ultra low-power sensors. Due to the high computational complexity of deep learning models, most embedded HAR…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently demonstrated superior quality for computational imaging applications. Therefore, they have great potential to revolutionize the image pipelines on cameras and displays. However, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao-Tsung Huang , Yu-Chun Ding , Huan-Ching Wang , Chi-Wen Weng , Kai-Ping Lin , Li-Wei Wang , Li-De Chen