A real-time object detection accelerator with compressed SSDLite on FPGA

H Fan, S Liu, M Ferianc, HC Ng, Z Que… - … conference on field …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection has been widely employed in
various applications such as autonomous driving and intelligent video surveillance …

Architect: Arbitrary-precision hardware with digit elision for efficient iterative compute

H Li, JJ Davis, J Wickerson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many algorithms feature an iterative loop that converges to the result of interest. The
numerical operations in such algorithms are generally implemented using finite-precision …

Measuring mobile applications quality and security in higher education

F Fasano, F Martinelli, F Mercaldo… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the widespread diffusion of mobile applications in many aspects of our life, one
of the most required developer's skill is related to mobile applications development, with …

Digit stability inference for iterative methods using redundant number representation

H Li, I McInerney, JJ Davis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In our recent work on iterative computation in hardware, we showed that arbitrary-precision
solvers can perform more favorably than their traditional arithmetic equivalents when the …

Speed and resource optimization of BFGS quasi-Newton implementation on FPGA using inexact line search method for neural network training

J Liu, Q Liu - 2018 International Conference on Field …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quasi-Newton (QN) method is one of the most effective Neural Network (NN) training
methods. However, QN training often needs long time especially when the NN architecture …

Resource reduction of BFGS quasi-newton implementation on FPGA using fixed-point matrix updating

J Liu, Q Liu - 2018 28th International Conference on Field …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quasi-Newton (QN) methods are now widely used for NN training due to their high
effectiveness. In practice, the iterative process of the QN methods implemented in software is …

Digit elision for arbitrary-accuracy iterative computation

H Li, JJ Davis, J Wickerson… - 2018 IEEE 25th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We recently proposed the first hardware architecture enabling the iterative solution of
systems of linear equations to accuracies limited only by the amount of available memory …