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Feature Compression for Rate Constrained Object Detection on the Edge
Recent advances in computer vision has led to a growth of interest in deploying visual analytics model on mobile devices. However, most mobile devices have limited computing power, which prohibits them from running large scale visual analytics neural networks. An emerging approach to solve this problem is to offload the computation of these neural networks to computing resources at an edge
server. Efficient computation offloading requires optimizing the trade-off between multiple objectives including compressed data rate, analytics performance, and computation
speed. In this work, we consider a “split computation” system to offload a part of the computation of the YOLO object detection model. We propose a learnable feature compression approach to compress the intermediate YOLO features with lightweight computation. We train the feature compression and decompression module together with the YOLO model to optimize the object detection accuracy
under a rate constraint. Compared to baseline methods that apply either standard image compression or learned image compression at the mobile and perform image de-compression and YOLO at the edge, the proposed system achieves higher detection accuracy at the low to medium rate range. Furthermore, the proposed system requires substantially lower computation time on the mobile device with CPU only.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1952180
- PAR ID:
- 10466150
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- In MLSys 2023 Workshop on Resource-Constrained Learning in Wireless Networks
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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