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

Doug Paradis paradug at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 16:52:21 PST 2017


Carl,
    That was my take on it also.

Regards,
Doug P.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:48 PM, 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...  ;-)
>
> 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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