The deep multichannel discrete-time cellular neural network model for classification

High latency and power consumption are two major problems that need to be addressed in convolutional neural networks (CNN). In this paper, the convolutional layer is replaced with a discrete-time cellular neural network (CellNN) to overcome these problems. Multiple configurations of CellNNs are trained in a framework called TensorFlow to classify objects from the CIFAR-10 database. Effects of the number of iterations, the number of channels, batch normalization, and activation functions on the classification accuracies are presented. It is shown that TensorFlow is a tool that is capable of training discrete-time CellNNs. Although the accuracies of the proposed networks on CIFAR-10 are slightly lesser than the existing CNNs, with reduced parameters and multiply-accumulates (MACs), power consumption and computation time of our networks will be less than CNNs.