Conference Proceedings
H. Park, Dorrance, R. , Amin, A. , Ren, F. , Marković, D. , and Yang, C. K. Ken,
“Analysis of STT-RAM Cell Design With Multiple MTJs Per Access”,
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 53-58, 2011.
(320.88 KB) S. Biookaghazadeh, Zhao, M. , and Ren, F. ,
“Are FPGAs Suitable for Edge Computing?”,
The USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge '18). BOSTON, MA, 2018.
(363.22 KB) Z. Zhang, Trindade, B. Machado, Green, M. , Yu, Z. , Pawlowicz, C. , and Ren, F. ,
“Automatic Error Detection in Integrated Circuits Image Segmentation: A Data-driven Approach”,
The 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'23). Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023.
(501.02 KB) Z. Liu, Li, Y. , Ren, F. , and Yu, H. ,
“A Binary Convolutional Encoder-decoder Network for Real-time Natural Scene Text Processing”,
The 1st International Workshop on Efficient Methods for Deep Neural Networks - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2016.
(773.3 KB) Y. I. Li and Ren, F. ,
“BNN Pruning: Pruning Binary Neural Network Guided by Weight Flipping Frequency”,
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). Santa Clara, CA, 2020.
(186.31 KB) F. Ren, Park, H. , Dorrance, R. , Toriyama, Y. , Yang, C. - K. K. , and Marković, D. ,
“A Body-voltage-sensing-based Short Pulse Reading Circuit for Spin-torque Transfer RAMs (STT-RAMs)”,
Proceedings of the 2012 13th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). IEEE, pp. 275-282, 2012.
(559.47 KB) H. Huang, Yu, H. , Zhuo, C. , and Ren, F. ,
“A Compressive-sensing based Testing Vehicle for 3D TSV Pre-bond and Post-bond Testing Data”,
International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD). pp. 19-25, 2016.
(1.21 MB) F. Ren and Marković, D. ,
“A Configurable 12-to-237KS/s 12.8 mW Sparse-approximation Engine for Mobile ExG Data Aggregation”,
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). IEEE, pp. 68-78, 2015.
(6.94 MB) Z. Zhang, Xu, K. , and Ren, F. ,
“CRA: A Generic Compression Ratio Adaptor for End-to-end Data-driven Image Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Frameworks”,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1740-1749, 2020.
(328.74 KB) K. Xu and Ren, F. ,
“CSVideoNet: A Real-time End-to-end Learning Framework for High-frame-rate Video Compressive Sensing”,
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 2018.
(821.05 KB) Z. Yu, Trindade, B. Machado, Green, M. , Zhang, Z. , Sneha, P. , Bank-Tavakoli, E. , Pawlowicz, C. , and Ren, F. ,
“A Data-Driven Approach for Automated Integrated Circuit Segmentation of Scan Electron Microscopy Images”,
The 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Bordeaux, France, 2022.
(1.03 MB) K. Xu, Li, Y. , and Ren, F. ,
“A Data-Driven Compressive Sensing Framework Tailored For Energy-Efficient Wearable Sensing”,
The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). New Orleans, LA, pp. 861-865, 2017.
(837.1 KB) K. Xu, Li, Y. I. , and Ren, F. ,
“An Energy-Efficient Compressive Sensing Framework Incorporating Online Dictionary Learning for Long-Term Wireless Health Monitoring”,
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, Shanghai, China, pp. 804 - 808, 2016.
(794.86 KB) Z. Zhang, Yu, Z. , You, S. , Rao, R. , Agarwal, S. , and Ren, F. ,
“Enhanced Low-resolution LiDAR-Camera Calibration Via Depth Interpolation and Supervised Contrastive Learning”,
The 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'23). Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023.
(2.95 MB) Z. Zhang, Zhao, J. , and Ren, F. ,
“An Experimental Study on Transferring Data-Driven Image Compressive Sensing to Bioelectric Signals”,
The 47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Singapore, pp. 1191-1195, 2022.
(1.29 MB) E. Bank-Tavakoli, Riera, M. , Quraishi, M. Hassan, and Ren, F. ,
“FSCHOL: An OpenCL-based HPC Framework for Accelerating Sparse Cholesky Factorization on FPGAs”,
The 33rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD). Virtual Event, pp. 209-220, 2021.
(380.33 KB) K. Xu, Zhang, Z. , and Ren, F. ,
“LAPRAN: A Scalable Laplacian Pyramid Reconstructive Adversarial Network for Flexible Compressive Sensing Reconstruction”,
The 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'18). Munich, Germany, pp. 491-507, 2018.
(1.41 MB) K. Xu, Qin, M. , Sun, F. , Wang, Y. , Chen, Y. - K. , and Ren, F. ,
“Learning in the Frequency Domain”,
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Seattle, WA, pp. 1740-1749, 2020.
(4.98 MB) Y. I. Li, Dua, A. , and Ren, F. ,
“Light-Weight RetinaNet for Object Detection on Edge Devices”,
The 2020 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT'20). New Orleans, Louisiana, 2020.
(2.43 MB) W. Xu, Huang, M. - C. , Liu, J. J. , Ren, F. , Shen, X. , Liu, X. , and Sarrafzadeh, M. ,
“mCOPD: Mobile Phone Based Lung Function Diagnosis and Exercise System for COPD”,
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA). ACM, 2013.
(646.4 KB) X. Zhou, Peng, Y. , Long, C. , Ren, F. , and Shi, C. ,
“MoNet3D: Towards Accurate Monocular 3D Object Localization in Real Time”,
The Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning. Virtual Event, 2020.
(9.74 MB) X. Zhang, Huang, M. - C. , Ren, F. , Xu, W. , Guan, N. , and Yi, W. ,
“Proper Running Posture Guide: A Wearable Biomechanics Capture System”,
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets). ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), 2013.
(1.54 MB) W. Li, Zhou, B. , Hsu, C. - Y. , Li, Y. I. , and Ren, F. ,
“Recognizing terrain features on terrestrial surface using a deep learning model - An example with crater detection”,
1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Articial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Geographic Knowledge Discovery. ACM, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 33-36, 2017.
(4.93 MB) R. Dorrance, Ren, F. , Toriyama, Y. , Amin, A. , Yang, C. - K. K. , and Marković, D. ,
“Scalability And Design-space Analysis of A 1T-1MTJ Memory Cell”,
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH). IEEE, pp. 32-36, 2011.
(1.1 MB) R. Dorrance, Ren, F. , and Marković, D. ,
“A Scalable Sparse Matrix-vector Multiplication Kernel for Energy-efficient Sparse-BLAS on FPGAs”,
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). ACM, pp. 161-170, 2014.
(558.35 KB) X. Zhang, Xu, W. , Huang, M. - C. , Amini, N. , and Ren, F. ,
“See UV on Your Skin: An Ultraviolet Sensing and Visualization System”,
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets). ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), pp. 22-28, 2013.
(1.82 MB) F. Ren, Dorrace, R. , Xu, W. , and Marković, D. ,
“A Single-precision Compressive Sensing Signal Reconstruction Engine on FPGAs”,
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). IEEE, pp. 1-4, 2013.
(358.12 KB) Z. Liu, Li, Y. I. , Ren, F. , Yu, H. , and Goh, W. ,
“SqueezedText: A Real-time Scene Text Recognition by Binary Convolutional Encoder-decoder Network”,
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). New Orleans, Louisana, pp. 7194-7201, 2018.
(1.49 MB) M. Chen, Hu, Q. , Yu, Z. , Thomas, H. , Feng, A. , Hou, Y. , McCullough, K. , Ren, F. , and Soibelman, L. ,
“STPLS3D: A Large-Scale Synthetic and Real Aerial Photogrammetry 3D Point Cloud Dataset”,
The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). London, UK, 2022.
(11.33 MB) Journal Article
Y. I. Li, Liu, Z. , Liu, W. , Jiang, Y. , Wang, Y. , Goh, W. Ling, Yu, H. , and Ren, F. ,
“A 34-FPS 698-GOP/s/W Binarized Deep Neural Network-based Natural Scene Text Interpretation Accelerator for Mobile Edge Computing”,
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 7407-7416, 2019.
(3.34 MB) B. Hu, Ren, F. , Chen, Z. - Z. , Jiang, X. , and Chang, M. - C. Frank,
“An 8-Bit Compressive Sensing ADC With 4GS/s Equivalent Speed Utilizing Self-Timed Pipeline SAR-Binary-Search”,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 934-938, 2016.
(1.8 MB) B. Hu, Ren, F. , Chen, Z. - Z. , Jiang, X. , and Chang, M. - C. Frank,
“9-bit time–digital-converter-assisted compressive-sensing analogue–digital-converter with 4 GS/s equivalent speed”,
IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 430-432, 2016.
(511.29 KB) Y. I. Li, Zhang, S. , Zhou, X. , and Ren, F. ,
“Build a Compact Binary Neural Network through Bit-level Sensitivity and Data Pruning”,
Neurocomputing, vol. 398, pp. 45-54, 2020.
(1.91 MB) Y. Wang, Li, X. , Xu, K. , Ren, F. , and Yu, H. ,
“Data-Driven Sampling Matrix Boolean Optimization for Energy-Efficient Biomedical Signal Acquisition by Compressive Sensing”,
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 255-266, 2017.
(2.53 MB) Y. Feng, Yang, F. , Zhou, X. , Guo, Y. , Tang, F. , Ren, F. , Guo, J. , and Ji, S. ,
“A Deep Learning Approach for Targeted Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Based Prostate Cancer Detection”,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1794-1801, 2019.
(1.73 MB) Y. I. Li, Liu, Z. , Xu, K. , Yu, H. , and Ren, F. ,
“A GPU-Outperforming FPGA Accelerator Architecture for Binary Convolutional Neural Networks”,
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing (JETC) - Special Issue on Frontiers of Hardware and Algorithms for On-chip Learning, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 18.16, 2018.
(1.92 MB) J. Li, Liang, J. , Li, L. , Ren, F. , Hu, W. , Li, J. , Qi, S. , and Pei, Q. ,
“Healable Capacitive Touch Screen Sensors Based on Transparent Composite Electrodes Comprising Silver Nanowires and a Furan/Maleimide Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Polymer”,
ACS Nano, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 12874–12882, 2014.
(6.99 MB) J. Zhao, Westerham, M. , Lakatos-Toth, M. , Zhang, Z. , Moskoff, A. , and Ren, F. ,
“OpenICS: Open Image Compressive Sensing Toolbox and Benchmark”,
Software Impacts, vol. 9, 2021.
(362.26 KB) F. Ren, Park, H. , Yang, C. - K. K. , and Marković, D. ,
“Reference Calibration of Body-voltage Sensing Circuit for High-speed STT-RAMs”,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 2932–2939, 2013.
(1.78 MB) Y. Wei, Zhou, J. , Wang, Y. , Liu, Y. , Liu, Q. , Luo, J. , Wang, C. , Ren, F. , and Huang, L. ,
“A Review of Algorithm & Hardware Design for AI-Based Biomedical Applications”,
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems , vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 145-163, 2020.
(2.08 MB) R. Dorrance, Ren, F. , Toriyama, Y. , Hafez, A. Amin, Yang, C. - K. K. , and Marković, D. ,
“Scalability and Design-space Analysis of A 1T-1MTJ Memory Cell For STT-RAMs”,
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 878–887, 2012.
(1.1 MB) F. Ren, Xu, W. , and Marković, D. ,
“Scalable and Parameterised VLSI Architecture for Efficient Sparse Approximation in FPGAs And SoCs”,
IET Electronics Letters, vol. 49, no. 23, pp. 1440–1441, 2013.
(154.45 KB) F. Ren, Zhang, C. , Liu, L. , Xu, W. , Owall, V. , and Marković, D. ,
“A Square-Root-Free Matrix Decomposition Method for Energy-Efficient Least Square Computation on Embedded Systems”,
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 73–76, 2014.
(912.74 KB) L. Cheng, Xu, W. , Ren, F. , Gong, F. , Gupta, P. , and He, L. ,
“Statistical Timing and Power Analysis of VLSI Considering Non-linear Dependence”,
the VLSI Journal Integration, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 487–498, 2014.
(845.26 KB) M. Hassan Quraishi, Bank-Tavakoli, E. , and Ren, F. ,
“A Survey of System Architectures and Techniques for FPGA Virtualization”,
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 2216-2230, 2021.
(435.22 KB) F. Ren and Marković, D. ,
“True Energy-performance Analysis Of The MTJ-based Logic-in-memory Architecture (1-bit Full Adder)”,
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1023–1028, 2010.
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