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On quantization of convolutional neural networks for image signal processor
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2023.35.6.ISS-348  Published OnlineJanuary 2023
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Recently, many deep learning applications have been used on the mobile platform. To deploy them in the mobile platform, the networks should be quantized. The quantization of computer vision networks has been studied well but there have been few studies for the quantization of image restoration networks. In this paper, we studied the effect of the quantization of activations for deep learning network on image quality following previous study for weight quantization for deep learning network. This study is also about the quantization on raw RGBW image demosaicing for 10 bit image while fixing weight bit as 8 bit. Experimental results show that 11 bit activation quantization can sustain image quality at the similar level with floating-point network. Even though the activations bit-depth can be very small bit in the computer vision applications, but image restoration tasks like demosaicing require much more bits than those applications. 11 bit may not fit the general purpose hardware like NPU, GPU or CPU but for the custom hardware it is very important to reduce its hardware area and power as well as memory size.

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Youngil Seo, Dongpan Lim, Jungguk Lee, Seongwook Song, "On quantization of convolutional neural networks for image signal processorin Electronic Imaging,  2023,  pp 348-1 - 348-5,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.6.ISS-348

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