TinyM²Net-V2: A Compact Low Power Software Hardware Architecture for Multimodal Deep Neural Networks

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Rashid,Hasib-Al, Utteja Kallakuri, Tinoosh Mohsenin. "TinyM²Net-V2: A Compact Low Power Software Hardware Architecture for Multimodal Deep Neural Networks" ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (3 May,2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3595633.

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With the evaluation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there has been a resurgence of interest in how to use AI algorithms on low-power embedded systems to broaden potential use cases of the Internet of Things (IoT). To mimic multimodal human perception, multimodal deep neural networks (M-DNN) have recently become very popular with the classification task due to their impressive performance for computer vision and audio processing tasks. This paper presents TinyM²Net-V2 - a compact low-power software hardware architecture for multimodal deep neural networks for resource-constrained tiny devices. In order to compress the models to implement on tiny devices, cyclicly sparsification and hybrid quantization (4-bits weights and 8-bits activations) methods are used. Although model compression techniques are an active research area, we are the first to demonstrate their efficacy for multimodal deep neural networks, using cyclicly sparsification and hybrid quantization of weights/activations. TinyM²Net-V2 shows that even a tiny multimodal deep neural network model can improve the classification accuracy more than that of any unimodal counterparts. Parameterized M-DNN model architecture was designed to be evaluated in two different case-studies: vehicle detection from multimodal images and audios and COVID-19 detection from multimodal audio recordings. The most compressed TinyM²Net-V2 achieves 92.5% COVID-19 detection accuracy (6.8% improvement from the unimodal full precision model) and 90.6% vehicle classification accuracy (7.7% improvement from the unimodal full precision model). A parameterized and flexible FPGA hardware accelerator was designed as well for TinyM²Net-V2 models. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work accelerating multimodal deep neural network models on low power Artix-7 FPGA hardware. We achieved energy efficiency of 9.04 GOP/s/W and 15.38 GOP/s/W for case-study 1 and case-study 2 respectively which is comparable to the state-of-the-art results. Finally, we compared our tiny FPGA hardware implementation results with off-the-shelf resource-constrained devices and showed our implementation is faster and consumed less power compared to the off-the-shelf resource-constrained devices.