fpgaHART: a toolflow for throughput-oriented acceleration of 3D CNNs for HAR onto FPGAs
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Author(s)
Toupas, Petros
Bouganis, Christos-Savvas
Tzovaras, Dimitrios
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, human monitoring systems, and video retrieval are just few of the many applications in which 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are exploited. However, their extensive use is restricted by their high computational and memory requirements, especially when integrated into systems with limited resources. This study proposes a toolflow that optimises the mapping of 3D CNN models for Human Action Recognition onto FPGA devices, taking into account FPGA resources and off-chip memory characteristics. The proposed system employs Synchronous Dataflow (SDF) graphs to model the designs and introduces transformations to expand and explore the design space, resulting in high-throughput designs. A variety of 3D CNN models were evaluated using the proposed toolflow on multiple FPGA devices, demonstrating its potential to deliver competitive performance compared to earlier hand-tuned and model-specific designs.
Date Issued
2023-11-02
Date Acceptance
2023-09-04
Citation
2023 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2023
ISBN
979-8-3503-4151-5
ISSN
1946-1488
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2023 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fpl60245.2023.00020
Source
2023 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-09-04
Finish Date
2023-09-08
Coverage Spatial
Gothenburg, Sweden
Date Publish Online
2023-11-02