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FPGA Implementation of CNN with Fixed-Point Calculations (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A compact image-recognition network runs on cheap FPGA chips by using fewer weights, whole-number arithmetic instead of decimals, and hardware tricks like block-stored weights and parallel filtering stages. It handles live camera video in real time, where usual floating-point networks are too heavy.

Abstract · Fixed-Point Convolutional Neural Network for Real-Time Video Processing in FPGA

Modern mobile neural networks with a reduced number of weights and parameters do a good job with image classification tasks, but even they may be too complex to be implemented in an FPGA for video processing tasks. The article proposes neural network architecture for the practical task of recognizing images from a camera, which has several advantages in terms of speed. This is achieved by reducing the number of weights, moving from a floating-point to a fixed-point arithmetic, and due to a number of hardware-level optimizations associated with storing weights in blocks, a shift register, and an adjustable number of convolutional blocks that work in parallel. The article also proposed methods for adapting the existing data set for solving a different task. As the experiments showed, the proposed neural network copes well with real-time video processing even on the cheap FPGAs.

Roman Solovyev, Alexander Kustov, Dmitry Telpukhov, Vladimir Rukhlov, Alexandr Kalinin
arXiv:1808.09945 · cs.CV · submitted Aug 29, 2018 · updated Dec 3, 2020
abstract · pdf · 2019 IEEE Conference of Russian Young Researchers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EIConRus)

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