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

[Carl Ott]

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...  ;-)
>
> 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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