Energy-aware Retinaface: A Power Efficient Edge-Computing SOC for Face Detector in 40nm

In this work, an energy-awaring face detector is implemented in 40nm technology SoC. Based on the art-of-state face detector, a highest accuracy retinaface detector (91.4% average precision) on the WIDER FACE dataset is quantized in the int8 domain. For this neural network, an 8-bit CNN accelerator in a hybrid SOC architecture is designed to achieve an end-to-end face detector. The entire detector...