Hardware Acceleration of CNNs with the FINN Framework
摘要
This paper explores the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for precision agriculture applications using the FINN framework by Xilinx. Our research provides an end-to-end use case from training and quantizing a CNN to running inference on an FPGA. We evaluate the quantized CNN model on a custom dataset for sugar beet and weed classification. The results demonstrate inference-performance improvements, making this FPGA-based implementation a candidate for real-time agricultural monitoring and decision-making.