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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,847 Views
24 Pages

Efficient Embedded System for Drowsiness Detection Based on EEG Signals: Features Extraction and Hardware Acceleration

  • Aymen Zayed,
  • Emanuel Trabes,
  • Jimmy Tarrillo,
  • Khaled Ben Khalifa and
  • Carlos Valderrama

Drowsiness detection is crucial for ensuring the safety of individuals engaged in high-risk activities. Numerous studies have explored drowsiness detection techniques based on EEG signals, but these have typically been validated on computers, which l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,148 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2025

Breast cancer detection is a critical task in healthcare, requiring fast, accurate, and efficient diagnostic tools. However, the high computational demands and latency of deep learning models in medical imaging present significant challenges, especia...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical & Healthcare AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,756 Views
19 Pages

A Reconfigurable CNN-2D Hardware Architecture for Real-Time Brain Cancer Multi-Classification on FPGA

  • Ayoub Mhaouch,
  • Wafa Gtifa,
  • Ibtihel Nouira,
  • Abdessalem Ben Abdelali and
  • Mohsen Machhout

1 February 2026

Brain cancer classification using deep learning has gained significant attention due to its potential to improve early diagnosis and treatment planning. In this work, we propose a reconfigurable and hardware-optimized CNN-2D architecture implemented...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,231 Views
10 Pages

Tunnels are commonly found in small and enclosed environments on highways, roads, or city streets. They are constructed to pass through mountains or beneath crowded urban areas. To prevent accidents in these confined environments, lane changes, slow...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
35 Pages

A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Parabolic Curve Detection Enhanced by FPGA-Based Hardware Acceleration

  • Francisco Javier Iñiguez-Lomeli,
  • Valentin Flores-Payan,
  • Lilia del Carmen Castillo-Villarruel and
  • Horacio Rostro-Gonzalez

1 July 2026

Detecting rotated parabolic shapes in digital images remains a significant challenge in computer vision, especially in embedded environments constrained by computational and memory resources. This study introduces a novel field-programmable gate arra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,913 Views
19 Pages

The Design and FPGA-Based Implementation of a Stream Cipher Based on a Secure Chaotic Generator

  • Fethi Dridi,
  • Safwan El Assad,
  • Wajih El Hadj Youssef,
  • Mohsen Machhout and
  • René Lozi

11 January 2021

In this study, with an FPGA-board using VHDL, we designed a secure chaos-based stream cipher (SCbSC), and we evaluated its hardware implementation performance in terms of computational complexity and its security. The fundamental element of the syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptography and Its Applications in Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,705 Views
20 Pages

HH-NIDS: Heterogeneous Hardware-Based Network Intrusion Detection Framework for IoT Security

  • Duc-Minh Ngo,
  • Dominic Lightbody,
  • Andriy Temko,
  • Cuong Pham-Quoc and ,
  • Ngoc-Thinh Tran,
  • Colin C. Murphy and
  • Emanuel Popovici
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 December 2022

This study proposes a heterogeneous hardware-based framework for network intrusion detection using lightweight artificial neural network models. With the increase in the volume of exchanged data, IoT networks’ security has become a crucial issu...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,041 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2025

The need for efficient and real-time traffic sign recognition has become increasingly important as autonomous vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) continue to evolve. This study introduces TSRACE-AI, a system that accelerates traff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Real-World Challenges in Recognition and Classification with Cutting-Edge AI Models and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,556 Views
13 Pages

A High-Performance and Ultra-Low-Power Accelerator Design for Advanced Deep Learning Algorithms on an FPGA

  • Achyuth Gundrapally,
  • Yatrik Ashish Shah,
  • Nader Alnatsheh and
  • Kyuwon Ken Choi

This article addresses the growing need in resource-constrained edge computing scenarios for energy-efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators on mobile Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) systems. In particular, we concentrate on reg...

(This article belongs to the Section Microelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,193 Views
15 Pages

Design of Efficient Floating-Point Convolution Module for Embedded System

  • Jiao Li,
  • Xinjing Zhou,
  • Binbin Wang,
  • Huaming Shen and
  • Feng Ran

15 February 2021

The convolutional neural network (CNN) has made great success in many fields, and is gradually being applied in edge-computing systems. Taking the limited budget of the resources in the systems into consideration, the implementation of CNNs on embedd...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,252 Views
25 Pages

Standard convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have large amounts of data redundancy, and the same accuracy can be obtained even in lower bit weights instead of floating-point representation. Most CNNs have to be developed and executed on high-end GPU...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced AI Hardware Designs Based on FPGAs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,750 Views
25 Pages

FPGA-Microprocessor Based Sensor for Faults Detection in Induction Motors Using Time-Frequency and Machine Learning Methods

  • Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios,
  • Isaias Cueva-Perez,
  • Alvaro Ivan Alvarado-Hernandez,
  • Larisa Dunai and ,
  • Israel Zamudio-Ramirez and
  • Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 April 2024

Induction motors (IM) play a fundamental role in the industrial sector because they are robust, efficient, and low-cost machines. Changes in the environment, installation errors, or modifications to working conditions can generate faults in induction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Fault Diagnosis & Sensors 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,723 Views
33 Pages

BESS-Enabled Smart Grid Environments: A Comprehensive Framework for Cyber Threat Classification, Cybersecurity, and Operational Resilience

  • Prajwal Priyadarshan Gopinath,
  • Kishore Balasubramanian,
  • Rayappa David Amar Raj,
  • Archana Pallakonda and ,
  • Rama Muni Reddy Yanamala,
  • Christian Napoli and
  • Cristian Randieri
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) are critical to smart grid functioning but are exposed to mounting cybersecurity threats with their integration into IoT and cloud-based control systems. Current solutions tend to be deficient in proper multi-cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,579 Views
20 Pages

Accelerating Deep Learning-Based Morphological Biometric Recognition with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

  • Nourhan Zayed,
  • Nahed Tawfik,
  • Mervat M. A. Mahmoud,
  • Ahmed Fawzy and ,
  • Young-Im Cho and
  • Mohamed S. Abdallah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 January 2025

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly recognized as an important and potent artificial intelligence approach, widely employed in many computer vision applications, such as facial recognition. Their importance resides in their capacity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Based Image Processing and Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
480 Views
20 Pages

Edge vision systems require convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that preserve recognition accuracy under strict storage, computation, and latency constraints. Although ResNet18 is a compact residual backbone, direct deployment on resource-constraine...

(This article belongs to the Topic Smart Edge Devices: Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,856 Views
15 Pages

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a recording of comprehensive reflection of physiological brain activities. Because of many reasons, however, including noises of heartbeat artifacts and muscular movements, there are complex challenges for efficient EEG...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue FPGA/GPU Acceleration of Biomedical Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,400 Views
18 Pages

7 June 2024

The LSTM neural network is often employed for time-series data prediction due to its strong nonlinear mapping capability and memory effect, allowing for better identification of complex data characteristics. However, the large computational workload...

(This article belongs to the Section K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,777 Views
14 Pages

Pattern Classification Using Quantized Neural Networks for FPGA-Based Low-Power IoT Devices

  • Manas Ranjan Biswal,
  • Tahesin Samira Delwar,
  • Abrar Siddique,
  • Prangyadarsini Behera and ,
  • Yeji Choi and
  • Jee-Youl Ryu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 November 2022

With the recent growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the demand for faster computation, quantized neural networks (QNNs) or QNN-enabled IoT can offer better performance than conventional convolution neural networks (CNNs). With the aim of reduc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications in Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
996 Views
16 Pages

Many machine learning and deep learning algorithms based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been implemented on software platforms for handwritten digit and character recognition. However, an ANN is difficult to deploy on an embedded platform...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
563 Views
34 Pages

Real-Time EEG-Based Anaesthesia Monitoring Using Neural Networks on Edge-AI Hardware

  • Brendan Mullane,
  • Dominik Przychodni and
  • Chris Crispin-Bailey

Background: Monitoring unconsciousness under general anaesthesia typically relies on indirect physiological indicators rather than direct measures of brain activity. This study investigates a compact, real-time electroencephalography (EEG)-based moni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,896 Views
21 Pages

FPGA-QNN: Quantized Neural Network Hardware Acceleration on FPGAs

  • Mustafa Tasci,
  • Ayhan Istanbullu,
  • Vedat Tumen and
  • Selahattin Kosunalp

12 January 2025

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have received a massive amount of interest due to their ability to achieve high accuracy in various artificial intelligence tasks. With the development of complex CNN models, a significant drawback is th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Deep Learning and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,516 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2022

Industry 4.0 features intelligent manufacturing. Among them, the vision-based defect inspection algorithm is remarkable for quality control in parts manufacturing. With the help of AI and machine learning, auto-adaptive instead of manual operation is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,490 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2026

Feature extraction and description are fundamental components of visual perception systems used in applications such as visual odometry, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), and autonomous navigation. In resource-constrained platforms, such...

(This article belongs to the Topic Image Processing, Signal Processing and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
762 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2026

Odometry estimation, which calculates the trajectory of a moving object across timeframes, is a critical and time-consuming function in SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) systems. Although LiDAR-based sensing is most popular for outdoor and...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Autonomous Vehicles, Automation, and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
33 Pages

Asynchronous Co-Execution of PyTorch on Zynq-7000: FPGA Matrix Delegation and PS–PL Overlap for End-to-End Inference Throughput

  • Omar Hernandez-Yañez,
  • Alejandro Juarez-Lora,
  • Jesús Yalja Montiel-Pérez,
  • Victor H. Ponce-Ponce and
  • Heron Molina-Lozano

Embedded systems increasingly require on-device deep learning, yet their processors must simultaneously handle real-time sensing, networking administration, and data control. Existing Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators typically target...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hardware Acceleration for Machine Learning, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
816 Views
33 Pages

11 June 2026

Wearable ECG monitors enable continuous cardiac surveillance, but most still rely on cloud-based analysis with limited on-device support for multi-class arrhythmia detection. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising for low-power edge inference,...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)