The Sparsity and Activation Analysis of Compressed CNN Networks in a HW CNN Accelerator Model

In this paper, we present the result of sparsity increase by CNN compression on 6 representative CNN networks including a famous localization CNN network VGG16-SSD-300. We will also show activation analysis result by applying the compressed CNN networks to a CNN HW accelerator model. Finally, this paper will be ended up with processing time estimation result of the CNN HW accelerator model which reflects the reduced transmission time of sparse weights.