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

Thu Nov 30 18:46:12 PST 2017

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...
>>
>>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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