Urban sound classification using neural networks on embedded FPGAs

[EN] Sound classification using neural networks has recently produced very accurate results. A large number of different applications use this type of sound classifiers such as controlling and monitoring the type of activity in a city or identifying different types of animals in natural environments...

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Autores: Belloch, Jose A., Coronado, Raul, Valls-Lozano, Óscar, León, Germán, Dolz, Manuel F., Amor-Martin, Adrian, del Amor, Rocío, Naranjo Ornedo, Valeriana|||0000-0002-0181-3412, Piñero, Gema|||0000-0002-8719-8106
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/207447
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/207447
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:FPGA
Sound classification
Hardware acceleration
Convolutional neural networks
Deep learning
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Sumario:[EN] Sound classification using neural networks has recently produced very accurate results. A large number of different applications use this type of sound classifiers such as controlling and monitoring the type of activity in a city or identifying different types of animals in natural environments. While traditional acoustic processing applications have been developed on high-performance computing platforms equipped with expensive multi-channel audio interfaces, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm requires the use of more flexible and energy-efficient systems. Although software-based platforms exist for implementing general-purpose neural networks, they are not optimized for sound classification, wasting energy and computational resources. In this work, we have used FPGAs to develop an ad hoc system where only the hardware needed for our application is synthesized, resulting in faster and more energy-efficient circuits. The results show that our developments are accelerated by a factor of 35 compared to a software-based implementation on a Raspberry Pi.