05 Oct 2023
Expert Talk by foreign faculty
The School of Computing & Information Technology organises an expert talk on ‘Research Progress & Application of Lightweight Neural Networks’ on October 5, 2023. The resource person for the event is Dr Junying Chen, Professor, School of Software Engineering, and South China University of Technology, China. The programme will be held from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved unmatched performance in many applications such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. Current research trend of improving and enhancing network performance makes the networks deeper and more complex, which eventually leads to a dramatic increase in the model size and the required computational resources. Due to these two reasons, most modern CNN models can only run on servers equipped with high-performance GPUs. Although embedded devices and mobile platforms have a huge demand for deployment of deep models, current architectures are not suitable for these systems due to their limited memory, power, and computational resources. Therefore, designing lightweight yet accurate CNN models that can be deployed in embedded devices and mobile platforms has become an active research direction. This lecture will introduce the research progress of lightweight neural networks, and the applications of lightweight neural networks to image and video analysis. Link to attend: https://shorturl.at/M0136
