Implement forward pass in C using prototxt and caffemodel from Caffe

[cesar gouveia]

Hi,

I’m currently working on neural networks, specifically building a neural network for traffic sign recognition. I have trained the network using the Framework caffe, and now I just need to forward some traffic sign images. My Project only focuses on the forward pass, and I need to implement it in C (in order to accelerate the convolutional layer in FPGA, which is the most computational intensive layer). CUDNN and all functions related with training are not required. Can you give me some tips to get started? I know that Caffe is written in C++, so should I use their functions and code, and adapt to my purpose? Or should I go another way? I've been looking for and find out that Darknet is written in C, KANN is a lightweight C library for ANN. I need to have a c software which is capable to read a deploy.prototxt and a caffemodel, like caffe does, perform a forward pass and give me the result.

Thanks in advance,

César Gouveia.