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

[Carl Ott]

Although I actually haven't bothered to read the exact details of what the
Google Kit does...  ;-)

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/solutions/vision-processing-unit
>> 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/
>> http://www.microcenter.com/site/content/Google_AIY.aspx?ekw=aiy&rd=1
>>
>>
>> Oh yeah.
>>
>> Google:
>>
>> 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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