Publications

Scientific publications

The following table provides overview of scientific contributions sourced from Edge-SpAIce developments.

Publication
Journal / Event
Authors
Date
HLS4ML: A Flexible, Open-Source Platform for Deep Learning Acceleration on Reconfigurable Hardware
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Jan-Frederik Schulte, Benjamin Ramhorst, Chang Sun, Jovan Mitrevski, Nicolò Ghielmetti, Enrico Lupi, Dimitrios Danopoulos, Vladimir Loncar, Javier Duarte, David Burnette, Lauri Laatu, Stylianos Tzelepis, Konstantinos Axiotis, Quentin Berthet, Haoyan Wang, Paul White, Suleyman Demirsoy, Marco Colombo, Thea Aarrestad, Sioni Summers, Maurizio Pierini, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Javier Campos, Ben Hawks, Abhijith Gandrakota, Farah Fahim, Nhan Tran, George Constantinides, Zhiqiang Que, Wayne Luk, Alexander Tapper, Duc Hoang, Noah Paladino, Philip Harris, Bo-Cheng Lai, Manuel Valentin, Ryan Forelli, Seda Ogrenci, Lino Gerlach, Rian Flynn, Mia Liu, Daniel Diaz, Elham Khoda, Melissa Quinnan, Russell Solares, Santosh Parajuli, Mark Neubauer, Christian Herwig, Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan Rankin, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Scott Hauck
2026.05.27 published
Edge SpAIce: Deep Neural Network simplification pipeline for On-Board Data Reduction – PAPER
European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference for Space (EDHPC 2025)
François De Vieilleville, Nicolas-Marcel Lemoine, Pierre-Jean Coquard, Pauline Audenino, Sioni Paris Summers, Boyan-Nikola Zafirov, Simon Vellas
2026.01.19 published
Edge SpAIce: Deep Neural Network simplification pipeline for On-Board Data Reduction – SLIDES
European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference for Space (EDHPC 2025)
Nimesh Tahalooa
2025.10.17 presented
Real-time detection and monitoring of plastics pollution with AI onboard Earth Observation Satellites
23rd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2025)
Sioni Summers
2025.09.11 presented
Edge SpAIce: Enabling Onboard Data Compression With Machine Learning On FPGAs
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW 2025)
Noemi D’Abbondanza, Stylianos Tzelepis, Nicolo Ghielmetti, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Vanya Buchova, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Katerina Kikaki, Nicolas-Marcel Lemoine, Maurizio Pierini, Sioni Summers, Simon Vellas, Francois de Vieilleville, Boyan-Nikola Zafirov
2025.06.07 presented, 2025.08.13 published
Trialing Real-Time Global Marine Litter Monitoring With Edge-SpAIce Project (POSTER)
Living Planet Symposium (LPS 2025) – ESA
Dr. Andis Dembovskis, Dr. François de Vieilleville, Dr. Pauline Audenino, Dr. Sioni Summers, Dr. Kikaki Katerina, Boyan-Nikola Zafirov
2025.06.23
Enabling Onboard Data Compression with Machine Learning on FPGAs
SpacE FPGA Users Workshop (SEFUW 2025)
Nicolò Ghielmetti, Dr Maurizio Pierini, Ms Noemi D’Abbondanza, Dr Sioni Summers, Stylianos Tzelepis
2025.03.25
Enabling Onboard Data Compression with Machine Learning on FPGAs
Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD 2025)
S. Tzelepis, N. Ghielmetti, N. M. Lemoine, M. Pierini, S. Summers, F. De Vielleville
2025.02.11
Edge SpAIce: Enabling On-Board Data Compression With Machine Learning On FPGAs
Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2024
Nicolò Ghielmetti, Mr Stylianos Tzelepis, Nicolò Ghielmetti, Sioni Paris Summers, Maurizio Pierini
2024.10.16
Edge SpAIce: Enabling Onboard Data Compression With Machine Learning On FPGAs
International Workshop on On-Board Payload Data Compression (OBPDC 2024)
Tzelepis, Stylianos; Ghielmetti, Nicolò; Lemoine, Nicolas-Marcel; Pierini, Maurizio; Summers, Sioni; De Vielleville, François
2024.09.30

Other publicity

The following table provides overview of published material about Edge-SpAIce project in various conferences, exhibitions, workshops, tutorials and events, aimed at promoting the project publicity.

Publication
Event
Contents
Authors
Date
Tutorial on hls4ml (videorecording + slides)
Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2026
This tutorial covers the full hls4ml model conversion pipeline, from the training of small example models, model conversion into HLS code, and HLS synthesis to obtain FPGA resource estimates. Including model compression with tools such as QKeras v3 and HGQ, and the impact on the inference performance on FPGAs.
Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology); Georgios Flengas (CERN); Jan-Frederik Schulte (Purdue University); Marius Köppel (ETH Zurich)
2026.08.31
EdgeSpAIce contribution to EuroGEO workshop
EuroGEO – Data to Intelligence: co-creating strategies with EU Initiatives. Marine & Coastal Action Group Workshop Data-to-Intelligence.
Current high level summary about Edge-SpAIce, focusing on preserving environment
Pierini Maurizio; Enrico Chesta
2026.07.06
Edge-SpAIce slides, focus on AI
Rendez-vous Mer & Données | Rencontre Marché IA & Maritime
Current high level summary about Edge-SpAIce, focusing on AI-tech
Andis Dembovskis
2026.04.09
Tutorial on hls4ml
FPGA Developers’ Forum (FDF)
This tutorial provides a practical introduction to hls4ml for FPGA-based machine learning inference. Participants will go through the main hls4ml workflow using small neural network examples, learn how key configuration choices affect latency and resource usage, and explore basic optimization techniques such as quantization and pruning. The hands-on parts of the tutorial runs on a CERN-curated Jupyter notebook platform.
Georgios Flengas
2026.05.29
Tutorial on hls4ml
Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2025
This tutorial introduces and gives a hands-on demo on hls4ml, an open-source library for real-time deployment of neural networks on FPGAs. hls4ml allows a seamless conversion from high-level models (e.g., from Keras or PyTorch) to low-latency, low-power FPGA designs. The tutorial covers the design choices behind hls4ml, from deeply pipelined dataflow architectures to model quantization and pruning. The hands-on demo guides through experimenting with hls4ml’s Python API and concludes with a live demo of the model inference on a real FPGA.
Benjamin Ramhorst (ETH Zurich); Fast Machine Learning Collaboration community
2025.09.01
Edge-SpAIce event slides @LPS
Living Planet Symposium (LPS 2025) – ESA
All presentations combined from the Edge-SpAIce event @LPS’25
Consortium members & event speakers
2025.06.24
Edge-SpAIce poster @HaDEA/LPS
Living Planet Symposium (LPS 2025) – ESA
High level overview of Edge-SpAIce
Andis Dembovskis
2025.06.23
Edge-SpAIce poster @GEO-Forum
GEO Global Forum 2025
High-level overview of Edge-SpAIce activities
S. Tzelepis; N. Ghielmetti; M. Pierini; S. Summers; K. Kikaki; S. Vellas; I.Kakogeorgiou; N.M. Lemoine; F. De Vielleville; A. Dembovskis; P. Audenino; B. Zafirov
2025.05.05
Edge-SpAIce slides @HaDEA
HaDEA workshop
Overview and progress of Edge-SpAIce project
Andis Dembovskis
2025.02.21
Edge-SpAIce overview (slides, video recording)
CERN Knowledge Transfer Seminar
Overview and progress of Edge-SpAIce
Nick Ziogas, Sioni Summers, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Francois de Vieilleville, Joseph Thuilier
2024.10.29

Public resources

The following table provides overview of published material about Edge-SpAIce project in various conferences, exhibitions, workshops, tutorials and events, aimed at promoting the project publicity.

Resource
Notes
MADOS – Detecting Marine Pollutants and Sea Surface Features with Deep Learning in Sentinel-2 Imagery
This is a package of the DNN-training dataset, DNN architecture and DNN itself for anyone interested in reproducing AI training for marine plastic detection in Sentinel-2 images. This pre-existing resource is updated with learnings from Edge-SpAIce.
MARIDA – Maritime Debris Archive
Marine Debris Archive (MARIDA) is a marine debris-oriented dataset on Sentinel-2 satellite images. It also includes various sea features that co-exist. MARIDA is primarily focused on the weakly supervised pixel-level semantic segmentation task.
HLS4ML code, installation guide and tutorials
Here can be found open-source code of HLS4ML for deploying it on NanoXplore NG-Ultra SoC-FPGA. While HLS4ML existed before he Edge-SpAIce, it was during this Horizon Europe project that the HLS4ML was augmented with feasibility to deploy on the sovereign European SoC-FPGA.

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