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most citedFast YOLO: A Fast You Only Look Once System for Real-time Embedded Object Detection in Video

71 citations · 203 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CV2023

DVQI: A Multi-task, Hardware-integrated Artificial Intelligence System for Automated Visual Inspection in Electronics Manufacturing

Audrey Chung, Francis Li, Jeremy Ward +2

As electronics manufacturers continue to face pressure to increase production efficiency amid difficulties with supply chains and labour shortages, many printed circuit board assem…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

PCBDet: An Efficient Deep Neural Network Object Detection Architecture for Automatic PCB Component Detection on the Edge

Brian Li, Steven Palayew, Francis Li +3

There can be numerous electronic components on a given PCB, making the task of visual inspection to detect defects very time-consuming and prone to error, especially at scale. Ther…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

TinyDefectNet: Highly Compact Deep Neural Network Architecture for High-Throughput Manufacturing Visual Quality Inspection

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Mahmoud Famouri, Gautam Bathla +2

A critical aspect in the manufacturing process is the visual quality inspection of manufactured components for defects and flaws. Human-only visual inspection can be very time-cons…

cs.NE2019★ 1 cited

State of Compact Architecture Search For Deep Neural Networks

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Andrew Hryniowski, Francis Li +2

The design of compact deep neural networks is a crucial task to enable widespread adoption of deep neural networks in the real-world, particularly for edge and mobile scenarios. Du…

cs.CV2019★ 4 cited

YOLO Nano: a Highly Compact You Only Look Once Convolutional Neural Network for Object Detection

Alexander Wong, Mahmoud Famuori, Mohammad Javad Shafiee +3

Object detection remains an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and considerable advances and successes has been achieved in this area through the design of de…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

Human-Machine Collaborative Design for Accelerated Design of Compact Deep Neural Networks for Autonomous Driving

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Mirko Nentwig, Yohannes Kassahun +7

An effective deep learning development process is critical for widespread industrial adoption, particularly in the automotive sector. A typical industrial deep learning development…

cs.NE2018★ 56 cited

FermiNets: Learning generative machines to generate efficient neural networks via generative synthesis

Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chwyl +1

The tremendous potential exhibited by deep learning is often offset by architectural and computational complexity, making widespread deployment a challenge for edge scenarios such…

cs.CV2018★ 41 cited

Tiny SSD: A Tiny Single-shot Detection Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Real-time Embedded Object Detection

Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li +1

Object detection is a major challenge in computer vision, involving both object classification and object localization within a scene. While deep neural networks have been shown in…

cs.CV2018

StressedNets: Efficient Feature Representations via Stress-induced Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chwyl, Francis Li +4

The computational complexity of leveraging deep neural networks for extracting deep feature representations is a significant barrier to its widespread adoption, particularly for us…

cs.NE2017★ 24 cited

SquishedNets: Squishing SqueezeNet further for edge device scenarios via deep evolutionary synthesis

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Brendan Chwyl +1

While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to outperform other machine learning methods in a wide range of applications, one of the biggest challenges with enabling…

cs.CV2017★ 71 cited

Fast YOLO: A Fast You Only Look Once System for Real-time Embedded Object Detection in Video

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chywl, Francis Li +1

Object detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in this field of computer vision, as it involves the combination of object classification and object localizatio…

cs.NE2017★ 3 cited

Exploring the Imposition of Synaptic Precision Restrictions For Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks

Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Alexander Wong

A key contributing factor to incredible success of deep neural networks has been the significant rise on massively parallel computing devices allowing researchers to greatly increa…