An Energy-Efficient Embedded Deep Neural Network Processor for High Speed Visual Attention in Mobile Vision Recognition SoC.

An energy-efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) processor is proposed for high-speed Visual Attention (VA) engine in a mobile vision recognition SoC. The proposed embedded DNN (E-DNN) processor realizes VA to rapidly find Region-Of-Interest (ROI) tiles of potential target objects to reduce ~ 70% of recognition workloads of a vision recognition SoC. Compared to the previous scale-invariant feature tr...