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In this paper, we present a practical deep learning (DL) approach for energy-efficient traffic classification (TC) on resource-limited microcontrollers, which are widely used in IoT-based smart systems and communication networks. Our…

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In this work, we outline the set of problems, which any Object Detection CNN faces when its development comes to the deployment stage and propose methods to deal with such difficulties. We show that these practices allow one to get Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Alexander Kozlov , Daniil Osokin

Time series classification underpins applications such as human activity recognition, healthcare monitoring, and gesture detection in the IoT domain. Tiny Machine Learning enables models to run directly on low-power microcontroller units,…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Bidyut Saha , Riya Samanta

This machine learning study investigates a lowcost edge device integrated with an embedded system having computer vision and resulting in an improved performance in inferencing time and precision of object detection and classification. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Richard C. Rodriguez , Jonah Elijah P. Bardos

Enabling On-Device Learning (ODL) for Ultra-Low-Power Micro-Controller Units (MCUs) is a key step for post-deployment adaptation and fine-tuning of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models in future TinyML applications. This paper tackles this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Davide Nadalini , Manuele Rusci , Luca Benini , Francesco Conti

On-device training is essential for user personalisation and privacy. With the pervasiveness of IoT devices and microcontroller units (MCUs), this task becomes more challenging due to the constrained memory and compute resources, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Young D. Kwon , Rui Li , Stylianos I. Venieris , Jagmohan Chauhan , Nicholas D. Lane , Cecilia Mascolo

On-device CNN inference for real-time computer vision applications can result in computational demands that far exceed the energy budgets of mobile devices. This paper proposes FixyNN, a co-designed hardware accelerator platform which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Paul Whatmough , Chuteng Zhou , Patrick Hansen , Matthew Mattina

Existing approaches to train neural networks that use large images require to either crop or down-sample data during pre-processing, use small batch sizes, or split the model across devices mainly due to the prohibitively limited memory…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Kushal Datta , Imtiaz Hossain , Sun Choi , Vikram Saletore , Kyle Ambert , William J. Godinez , Xian Zhang

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based methods have achieved great success in a large number of applications and have been among the most powerful and widely used techniques in computer vision. However, CNN-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Ali Jahanshahi

The advancements in machine learning opened a new opportunity to bring intelligence to the low-end Internet-of-Things nodes such as microcontrollers. Conventional machine learning deployment has high memory and compute footprint hindering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Swapnil Sayan Saha , Sandeep Singh Sandha , Mani Srivastava

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed representation learning for large models, yet remains unexplored for microcontroller (MCU)-class models with fewer than 500K parameters. We identify three obstacles at this scale -- projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bibin Wilson

The adoption of intelligent systems with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) embedded in hardware for real-time applications currently faces a growing demand in fields like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Caio J. B. V. Guimarães , Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

Modern smart vision sensors need on-device intelligence to process video streams, as cloud computing is often impractical due to bandwidth, latency, and privacy constraints. However, these sensory systems typically rely on ultra-low-power…

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This research empirically examines embedded development tools viable for on-device TinyML implementation. The research evaluates various development tools with various abstraction levels on resource-constrained IoT devices, from basic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Enzo Scaffi , Antoine Bonneau , Frédéric Le Mouël , Fabien Mieyeville

Real-time CNN-based object detection models for applications like surveillance can achieve high accuracy but are computationally expensive. Recent works have shown 10 to 100x reduction in computation cost for inference by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Kentaro Yoshioka , Edward Lee , Simon Wong , Mark Horowitz

Machine learning on tiny IoT devices based on microcontroller units (MCU) is appealing but challenging: the memory of microcontrollers is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller even than mobile phones. We propose MCUNet, a framework that jointly…

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We present a novel framework for analyzing and interpreting electron microscopy images in semiconductor manufacturing using vision-language instruction tuning. The framework employs a unique teacher-student approach, leveraging pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Sakhinana Sagar Srinivas , Geethan Sannidhi , Venkataramana Runkana

We present HyperCam, an energy-efficient image classification pipeline that enables computer vision tasks onboard low-power IoT camera systems. HyperCam leverages hyperdimensional computing to perform training and inference efficiently on…

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With the rise of multimodal applications, instruction data has become critical for training multimodal language models capable of understanding complex image-based queries. Existing practices rely on powerful but costly large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jieyu Zhang , Le Xue , Linxin Song , Jun Wang , Weikai Huang , Manli Shu , An Yan , Zixian Ma , Juan Carlos Niebles , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Zeyuan Chen , Ranjay Krishna , Ran Xu

In recent years, machine vision has taken huge leaps and is now becoming an integral part of various intelligent systems, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many others. Usually, visual information is captured by a frame-based…