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Yung-Hsiang Lu, Associate Professor at Purdue University, delivers the presentation "Introducing the IEEE Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC)" at the September 2015 Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting. Yung-Hsiang describes the objectives and details of the competition, the 2015 LPIRC results, and the upcoming 2016 LPIRC plans.
2. Why LPIRC?
• Mobile systems are the primary devices for
communication and visual data acquisition.
• Sending raw images over wireless network may
be too expensive (in energy and delay) and
image processing on mobile systems desirable.
• Visual recognition can enable many applications.
• Recharging and replacing batteries is
inconvenient.
Low Power Image Recognition
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3. Space X Prize
DARPA Autonomous Vehicle
Why Benchmark / Competition
• Assess the state of the art in the field
• Competition attracts public attention.
• Image recognition competitions since 2010.
• LPIRC adds energy
Score =
Accuracy
Energy
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13. LPIRC 2015/06/07
• a one-day workshop in SF
• 34 registrations in 10 teams
from 13 organizations and 4
countries (USA, China,
Taiwan, Canada)
• 8 teams presented 20
solutions (2 teams quit)
• Sponsors:
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16. Winners
• Champion: Tsinghua/Huawei, Nvidia Jetson
• Second prize: CASIA/Huawei Team
• Third prize: Tsinghua/Huawei Team
• Highest accuracy with low energy:
Tsinghua/Huawei
• Least energy with high accuracy: CASIA/Huawei
• Special prizes:
– Ready to go: Carnegie Mellon
– Standing alone: Rice University Team
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23. LPIRC 2016
• June 2016 in Austin Texas (with Design
Automation Conference)
• More teams: please encourage your colleagues
to participate
• More images and shorter response time
• New track: use LCD display as the data source
and teams have to use cameras (to simulate
human eyes)
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24. Long-Term Goal
• Only ambient energy (light, sound, vibration...)
• Real-time
• 1,000 categories and one million images
• 10 minutes
• Each image may contain multiple objects
• At least 10 images / second
• 99% accuracy
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25. What Do I Need from You?
• Publicity: encourage researchers and engineers
in your companies to participate in LPIRC 2016
• Committee members: please volunteer
• Data and annotation
• Rules and new ideas
• Funding: travel grants for participants,
equipment for the referee system, prizes for
winners, support for creating the new referee
system
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26. Low-Power Image Recognition
Competition (LPIRC)
www.lpirc.net
Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University
yunglu@purdue.edu
Alex Berg, University of North Carolina
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