Edge AI and Vision Insights: April 17, 2024

Back by popular demand, we’re excited to again host the annual Women in Vision networking reception at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. We invite women working in computer vision and edge AI to join us for this special in-person gathering to meet, network and share ideas. This year’s Women in Vision Reception will be held on Wednesday, May 22 in Santa Clara, California. Appetizers and refreshing beverages will be served. We look forward to seeing you there! Register here, and feel free to invite your colleagues.

Registration for the full Embedded Vision Summit program, taking place May 21-23, is not required in order to attend the Women in Vision reception but is highly recommended! Register now for the Summit using code SUMMIT24-NL for a 15% discount on your conference pass.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Edge AI and Vision Alliance

Updating the Edge ML Development Process
Samsara is focused on digitizing the world of operations. The company helps customers across many industries—including food and beverage, utilities and energy, field services and government—get information about their physical operations into the cloud, so they can operate more safely, efficiently and sustainably. Samsara’s sensors collect billions of data points per day and on-device processing is instrumental to its success. The company is constantly developing, improving and deploying ML models at the edge. Samsara has found that the traditional development process—where ML scientists create models and hand them off to firmware engineers for embedded implementation—is slow and often produces difficult-to-resolve differences between the original model and the embedded implementation. In this 2023 Embedded Vision Summit talk, Jim Steele, Vice President of Embedded Software at Samsara, presents an alternative development process that his company has adopted with good results. In this process, firmware engineers develop a general framework that ML scientists use to design, develop and deploy their models. This enables quick iterations and fewer confounding bugs.

Selecting Tools for Developing, Monitoring and Maintaining ML Models
With the boom in tools for developing, monitoring and maintaining ML models, data science teams have many options to choose from. Proprietary tools provided by cloud service providers are enticing, but teams may fear being locked in—and may worry that these tools are too costly or missing important features when compared with alternatives from specialized providers. Fortunately, most proprietary, fee-based tools have an open-source component that can be integrated into a home-grown solution at low cost. This can be a good starting point, enabling teams to get started with modern tools without making big investments and leaving the door open to evolve tool selection over time. In this 2023 Embedded Vision Summit presentation, Parshad Patel, Data Scientist at Yummly, presents a step-by-step process for creating an MLOps tool set that enables you to deliver maximum value as a data scientist. He shares how Yummly built pipelines for model development and put them into production using open-source projects.

Understanding, Selecting and Optimizing Object Detectors for Edge Applications
Object detectors count objects in a scene and determine their precise locations, while also labeling them. Object detection plays a crucial role in many vision applications, from autonomous driving to smart appliances. In many of these applications, it’s necessary or desirable to implement object detection at the edge. In this 2023 Embedded Vision Summit presentation, Md Nasir Uddin Laskar, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, explores the evolution of object detection algorithms, from traditional approaches to deep learning-based methods and transformer-based architectures. He delves into widely used approaches for object detection, such as two-stage R-CNNs and one-stage YOLO algorithms, and examines their strengths and weaknesses. And he provides guidance on how to evaluate and select an object detector for an edge application.

Detecting Data Drift in Image Classification Neural Networks
An unforeseen change in the input data is called “drift,” and may impact the accuracy of machine learning models. In this 2023 Embedded Vision Summit talk, Spyros Tragoudas, Professor and School Director at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, presents a novel scheme for diagnosing data drift in the input streams of image classification neural networks. His proposed method for drift detection and quantification uses a threshold dictionary for the prediction probabilities of each class in the neural network model. The method is applicable to any drift type in images such as noise and weather effects, among others. Tragoudas shares experimental results on various data sets, drift types and neural network models to show that his proposed method estimates the drift magnitude with high accuracy, especially when the level of drift significantly impacts the model’s performance.

Embedded Vision Summit: May 21-23, 2024, Santa Clara, California

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