[Dprglist] Pre-Order now: Google AIY Vision - Intel Movidius based kit

Tue Dec 5 18:51:55 PST 2017

Ha!  it's been IKEAized...

wow that looks really, really easy!

AI Vision - here we go :)

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Ezra Christensen <ezracc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Carl - "I bet the USB stick didn't have that much clarity and
> assistance..."
>
> I got my usb stick today and it came with these instructions on how to
> plug it in. LOL
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 9:10 PM Alyssa Pipe <eh.lyssa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I did get the Movidius compute stick 'hello world' working but it's not
>> exciting. I am trying to get yolo working on it with the raspberry pi.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Alyssa
>>
>> On Thursday, November 30, 2017, 8:46:15 PM CST, Ezra Christensen <
>> ezracc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Have you tinkered with the Movidius compute stick?
>>
>> I ordered one and will let you know if I get a 'hello world' working for
>> it.
>>
>>
>> - Ezra
>>
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Carl Ott" <carl.ott.jr at gmail.com>
>> To: "Alyssa Pipe" <eh.lyssa at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "DPRG D-List" <dprglist at dprg.org>
>> Sent: 11/30/2017 7:10:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dprglist] Pre-Order now: Google AIY Vision - Intel Movidius
>> based kit
>>
>> I'm hoping the Google AIY Vision will be easier to work with than the
>> Movidius USB compute stick.  After all, the Vision kit comes with
>> instructions to assemble a cardboard box.  I bet the USB stick didn't have
>> that much clarity and assistance...
>>
>> Sure - call me lazy, but I've been waiting for somebody else to put a
>> 'plug-n-play' kit together for the Movidius.  I figure that if somebody
>> else has worked out 'hello world', I can start kit-bashing and take it from
>> there...
>>
>> - Carl
>>
>> ps. Where is this DIY stuff heading anyhow - maybe BioHacking kits from
>> IKEA? Just follow the cartoon stick figures and make your own custom
>> self-luminescent organic lighting decor?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Alyssa Pipe <eh.lyssa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is not much to the google AIY. It comes with a cardboard box, an
>> arcade button, a speaker, a microphone board and an audio slash I/O hat for
>> a raspberry pi. It does not include the raspberry pi, but I have half a
>> dozen of those. The AIY is meant to make it easy for people to play with
>> google's cloud based voice AI that the google home uses. I already 3d
>> printed a replacement box for it, rather than the cardboard one it comes
>> with and I have it setup currently to act just like a google home.
>>
>> The movidius stick is not quite as easy to use or setup. Their libraries
>> are a little fussy to setup and use. I got it working on an ubuntu VM, and
>> I want to use it on the raspberry pi but I don't have that part going yet.
>>
>> The idea of the movidius stick is that it is a low power CPU optimized
>> for running neural networks. Now anything can run a neural network but some
>> architectures are better than others at that task because it involves lots
>> of linear algebra. The movidius is relative fast for that task given it
>> uses under 0.5 watters.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alyssa
>>
>> On Thursday, November 30, 2017, 6:48:48 PM CST, Carl Ott <
>> carl.ott.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Although I actually haven't bothered to read the exact details of what
>> the Google Kit does...  [image: ;-)]
>>
>> as I understand it, this Movidius VPU has silicon neural nets optimized
>> for full rate / full frame vision processing, with power requirements
>> suitable for small battery powered things...
>>
>> At the CES demo, they gave the impression that the host Pi would 'do
>> little more than' set up the VPU, serve a video stream, and harvest
>> results...
>>
>> For our SmartCamBot, we could have used one of these to process the image
>> locally, instead of having to rely on a network connected neural net
>> running on IBM Watson. Except that, for that hackathon, using Watson was
>> one of the prized criteria...
>>
>> For DPRG, it seems likely this could revolutionize the challenge of
>> spotting an orange can...
>>
>> Just saying...
>>
>> I'm out to try new approaches...
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Doug Paradis <paradug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Carl,
>>     Does this unit use the Zero's WiFi to send data to your laptop? What
>> exactly does "local image processing" mean?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug P.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Carl Ott <carl.ott.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been waiting for an eval kit like this since CES in January, when Dave
>> Ackley and I saw a cool demo using the neural net based Movidius VPU -
>> albeit that one was packaged as a USB compute stick.  This version runs on
>> a bonnet for Raspberry Pi Zero W:
>>
>> *The VisionBonnet circuit board has an Intel Movidius MA2450 low-power
>> vision processing unit, which can run neural network models right on the
>> device. You'll get software, too, which has three TensorFlow-based neural
>> network models: one to recognize a thousand common objects, another that
>> can recognize faces and expressions and a third that can detect people,
>> cats and dogs. *
>>
>> Check this out:
>>
>> https://www.movidius.com/solut ions/vision-processing-unit
>> <https://www.movidius.com/solutions/vision-processing-unit>
>> https://uploads.movidius.com/1 463156689-2016-04-29_VPU_Produ ctBrief.pdf
>> <https://uploads.movidius.com/1463156689-2016-04-29_VPU_ProductBrief.pdf>
>>
>>
>> Pre-Order from Micro-Center
>>
>> https://www.engadget.com/2017/ 11/30/google-diy-ai-camera-kit
>> -raspberry-pi/
>> <https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/30/google-diy-ai-camera-kit-raspberry-pi/>
>> http://www.microcenter.com/sit e/content/Google_AIY.aspx?ekw= aiy&rd=1
>> <http://www.microcenter.com/site/content/Google_AIY.aspx?ekw=aiy&rd=1>
>>
>>
>> Oh yeah.
>>
>> Google:
>>
>> https://aiyprojects.withgoogle .com/vision
>> <https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision>
>>
>>
>> I suppose, if we wanted to bring the award winning / beer finding
>> SmartCamBot back to life with one of these, we'd have to train it to
>> recognize bottles versus crayons, but that's a small price to pay for
>> real-time / local image processing at this level...
>>
>> Who else is in?
>>
>> - Carl
>>
>>
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