DEEP LEARNING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS USING MODULARLY CONNECTED CNN BASED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

摘要

A deep learning image processing system contains at least first and second groups of cellular neural networks (CNN) based integrated circuits (ICs). The first group and the second group are operatively connected in parallel via a network bus. CNN based ICs within each of the first and second groups are operatively connected in series via the network bus. The first group is configured for performing convolutional operations in respective portions of a deep learning model for extracting features out of a first subsection of input data. The second group is configured for performing convolutional operations in respective portions of the deep learning model for extracting features out of a second subsection of the input data. The deep learning model is divided into a plurality of consecutive portions being handled by the respective CNN based ICs. The input data is partitioned into at least first and second subsections.