Abstract:
An ultra-low-power analog-digital hybrid always-on face recognition (FR) processor integrated with a CMOS image sensor (CIS) is proposed for the wearable mobile devices a...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
An ultra-low-power analog-digital hybrid always-on face recognition (FR) processor integrated with a CMOS image sensor (CIS) is proposed for the wearable mobile devices applications such as user authentication. The proposed processor is the first IC with full process of FR in a single chip. The processor adopts analog-digital hybrid convolution operation for efficient integration of CNN processor with CIS. The analog convolution processor is proposed for the computation of the 1st layer of CNN and the quantization operation without an ADC that can achieve 15.7% power reduction with 1.3% minimal accuracy loss. In addition, the analog weighted-sum unit with low power (<; 20μW) and high efficiency (> 5.18TOPS/W) is proposed with switched-drain regulation (SDR) current mirror which can achieve less than 6% mirroring error. The processor is simulated in 65-nm CMOS technology, 15.84mm2 area with 2.5V and 1.2V for analog domain and 0.77-1.1V for digital domain. It consumes 0.6198mW to evaluate one face at 1 fps and achieves 96.18% FR accuracy in LFW dataset.
Date of Conference: 26-29 May 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 01 May 2019
Print ISBN:978-1-7281-0397-6
Print ISSN: 2158-1525