Criticality aware canvas-based visual perception at the edge

National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapor

Poster: Profiling event vision processing on edge devices

National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapor

JIGSAW: Edge-based streaming perception over spatially overlapped multi-camera deployments

National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapor

MOSAIC: Spatially-Multiplexed Edge AI Optimization over Multiple Concurrent Video Sensing Streams

Sustaining high fidelity and high throughput of perception tasks over vision sensor streams on edge devices remains a formidable challenge, especially given the continuing increase in image sizes (e.g., generated by 4K cameras) and complexity of DNN models. One promising approach involves criticality-aware processing, where the computation is directed selectively to critical portions of individual image frames. We introduce MOSAIC, a novel system for such criticality-aware concurrent processing of multiple vision sensing streams that provides a multiplicative increase in the achievable throughput with negligible loss in perception fidelity. MOSAIC determines critical regions from images received from multiple vision sensors and spatially bin-packs these regions using a novel multi-scale Mosaic Across Scales (MoS) tiling strategy into a single canvas frame, sized such that the edge device can retain sufficiently high processing throughput. Experimental studies using benchmark datasets for two tasks, Automatic License Plate Recognition and Drone-based Pedestrian Detection, show that MOSAIC, executing on a Jetson TX2 edge device, can provide dramatic gains in the throughput vs. fidelity tradeoff. For instance, for drone-based pedestrian detection, for a batch size of 4, MOSAIC can pack input frames from 6 cameras to achieve (a) 4.75x higher throughput (23 FPS per camera, cumulatively 138FPS) with less than 1% accuracy loss, compared to a First Come First Serve (FCFS) processing paradigm.Comment: To appear in ACM Multimedia Systems 202

MOSAIC: Spatially-multiplexed edge AI optimization over multiple concurrent video sensing streams

National Research Foundation, Singapor

Algorithms for canvas-based attention scheduling with resizing

National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapor