The ISMVL (Int'l Symp. on Multiple-Valued Logic) presentation slide on May, 22nd, 2017 at Novi Sad, Serbia. It is a kind of machine learning to realize a high-performance and low power.
FPT17: An object detector based on multiscale sliding window search using a f...Hiroki Nakahara
1) The document describes an object detection system that uses a multiscale sliding window approach with fully pipelined binarized convolutional neural networks (BCNNs) implemented on an FPGA.
2) The system detects and classifies multiple objects in images by applying BCNNs to windows at different scales and locations, and suppresses overlapping detections.
3) Experimental results on a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC FPGA demonstrate that the proposed pipelined BCNN architecture can achieve higher accuracy than GPU-based detectors while using less than 5W of power.
A digital spectrometer using an FPGA is proposed for use on a radio telescope. The spectrometer would provide high-resolution spectral analysis of wideband radio frequency signals received by the telescope. To achieve high throughput on the FPGA, a nested residue number system is used to implement the fast Fourier transforms in the spectrometer. This decomposes large moduli into smaller nested ones, allowing uniform circuit sizes and enabling fully parallel implementation of the arithmetic.
FCCM2020: High-Throughput Convolutional Neural Network on an FPGA by Customiz...Hiroki Nakahara
This document presents a method for high-throughput convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on an FPGA using customized JPEG compression. It decomposes convolutions using channel shift and pointwise operations, employs binary weight quantization, and uses a fully pipelined architecture. Experimental results show the proposed JPEG compression achieves an 82x speedup with 0.3% accuracy drop. When implemented on an FPGA, the CNN achieves 3,321 frames per second at 75 watts, providing over 100x and 10x speedups over CPU and GPU respectively.
FPGA2018: A Lightweight YOLOv2: A binarized CNN with a parallel support vecto...Hiroki Nakahara
This document presents a mixed-precision convolutional neural network (CNN) called a Lightweight YOLOv2 for real-time object detection on an FPGA. The network uses binary precision for the feature extraction layers and half precision for the localization and classification layers. An FPGA implementation of the network achieves 40.81 FPS for object detection, outperforming an embedded GPU and CPU. Future work will apply this approach to other CNN-based applications such as semantic segmentation and pose estimation.
ISCAS'18: A Deep Neural Network on the Nested RNS (NRNS) on an FPGA: Applied ...Hiroki Nakahara
The document discusses implementing a deep neural network object detector called YOLOv2 on an FPGA using a technique called Nested Residue Number System (NRNS). Key points:
1. YOLOv2 is used for real-time object detection but requires high performance and low power.
2. NRNS decomposes large integer operations into smaller ones using a nested set of prime number moduli, enabling parallelization on FPGA.
3. The authors implemented a Tiny YOLOv2 model using NRNS on a NetFPGA-SUME board, achieving 3.84 FPS at 3.5W power and 1.097 FPS/W efficiency.
ISMVL2018: A Ternary Weight Binary Input Convolutional Neural NetworkHiroki Nakahara
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a ternary weight binary input convolutional neural network (CNN).
The paper proposes using ternary (-1, 0, +1) weights instead of binary weights to improve recognition accuracy over binary CNNs. By setting many weights to zero, computations can be skipped, reducing operations. Experimental results show the ternary CNN model reduced non-zero weights to 5.3% while maintaining accuracy comparable to binary CNNs. Implementation on an ARM processor demonstrated the ternary CNN was 8 times faster than a binary CNN.
This document summarizes the paper "Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift". It introduces batch normalization, which normalizes layer inputs to speed up training of neural networks. Batch normalization reduces internal covariate shift by normalizing layer inputs. It computes normalization statistics over each mini-batch and applies them to the inputs. This allows higher learning rates and acts as a regularizer. Experiments show batch normalization stabilizes and accelerates the training of neural networks on ImageNet classification.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/altera/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2015-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Deshanand Singh, Director of Software Engineering at Altera, presents the "Efficient Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks using OpenCL on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are becoming increasingly popular in embedded applications such as vision processing and automotive driver assistance systems. The structure of CNN systems is characterized by cascades of FIR filters and transcendental functions. FPGA technology offers a very efficient way of implementing these structures by allowing designers to build custom hardware datapaths that implement the CNN structure. One challenge of using FPGAs revolves around the design flow that has been traditionally centered around tedious hardware description languages.
In this talk, Deshanand gives a detailed explanation of how CNN algorithms can be expressed in OpenCL and compiled directly to FPGA hardware. He gives detail on code optimizations and provides comparisons with the efficiency of hand-coded implementations.
A Platform for Accelerating Machine Learning ApplicationsNVIDIA Taiwan
Robert Sheen from HPE gave a presentation on machine learning applications and accelerating deep learning. He provided a quick introduction to neural networks, discussing their structure and how they are inspired by biological neurons. Deep learning requires high performance computing due to its computational intensity during training. Popular deep learning frameworks like CogX were also discussed, which provide tools and libraries to help build and optimize neural networks. Finally, several enterprise use cases for machine learning and deep learning were highlighted, such as in finance, healthcare, security, and geospatial applications.
This slide is going to introduce the concept of TensorFlow based on the source code study, including tensor, operation, computation graph and execution.
Towards Machine Comprehension of Spoken ContentNVIDIA Taiwan
Hung-yi Lee gave a presentation on developing machine comprehension of spoken content. He discussed using deep learning for speech recognition, spoken content retrieval, key term extraction, summarization, question answering, and organizing information. The goal is for machines to understand spoken audio data by recognizing speech, extracting useful information, and interacting with users to provide relevant results. Several challenges were mentioned, such as the lack of annotated training data for many languages. Preliminary research on learning directly from audio without transcription was also presented.
This document discusses optimizations for deep learning frameworks on Intel CPUs and Fugaku processors. It introduces oneDNN, an Intel performance library for deep neural networks. JIT assembly using Xbyak is proposed to generate optimized code depending on parameters at runtime. Xbyak has been extended to AArch64 as Xbyak_aarch64 to support Fugaku. AVX-512 SIMD instructions are briefly explained.
This document discusses deep learning initiatives at NECSTLab focused on hardware acceleration of convolutional neural networks using FPGAs. It proposes a framework called CNNECST that provides high-level APIs to design CNNs, integrates with machine learning frameworks for training, and generates customized hardware for FPGA implementation through C++ libraries and Vivado. Experimental results show speedups and energy savings for CNNs like LeNet and MNIST on FPGA boards compared to CPU. Challenges and future work include supporting more layer types and reduced precision computations.
This document discusses three important optimizations for GPU performance: thread mapping, device occupancy, and vectorization. Thread mapping involves assigning threads to data in a way that aligns with hardware and provides efficient memory access. Device occupancy refers to how fully the compute unit resources are utilized. Having enough active threads to hide memory latency impacts performance. Vectorization, or processing multiple data elements with each thread, is particularly important for AMD GPUs. Examples are provided of different thread mappings and how they affect memory access and performance.
Ted Willke, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Labs at MLconf NYCMLconf
You Thought What?! The Promise of Real-Time Brain Decoding: What can faster machine learning and new model-based approaches tell us about what someone is really thinking? Recently, Intel joined up with some of the pioneers of brain decoding to understand exactly that. Using functional MRI as our microscope, we began analyzing large amounts of high-dimensional 4-D image data to uncover brain networks that support cognitive processes. But existing image preprocessing, feature selection, and classification techniques are too slow and inaccurate to facilitate the most exciting breakthroughs. In this talk, we’ll discuss the promise of accurate real-time brain decoding and the computational headwinds. And we’ll look at some of the approaches to algorithms and optimization that Intel Labs and its partners are taking to reduce the barriers.
Deep Learning with TensorFlow: Understanding Tensors, Computations Graphs, Im...Altoros
1. The elements of Neural Networks: Weights, Biases, and Gating functions
2. MNIST (Hand writing recognition) using simple NN in TensorFlow (Introduce Tensors, Computation Graphs)
3. MNIST using Convolution NN in TensorFlow
4. Understanding words and sentences as Vectors
5. word2vec in TensorFlow
This document discusses how work groups are scheduled for execution on GPU compute units. It explains that work groups are broken down into hardware schedulable units known as warps or wavefronts. These group threads together and execute instructions in lockstep. The document covers thread scheduling, effects of divergent control flow, predication, warp voting, and optimization techniques like maximizing occupancy.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/auvizsystems/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2015-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Nagesh Gupta, CEO and Founder of Auviz Systems, presents the "Trade-offs in Implementing Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit.
Video and images are a key part of Internet traffic—think of all the data generated by social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram—and this trend continues to grow. Extracting usable information from video and images is thus a growing requirement in the data center. For example, object and face recognition are valuable for a wide range of uses, from social applications to security applications. Deep neural networks are currently the most popular form of convolutional neural networks (CNN) used in data centers for such applications. 3D convolutions are a core part of CNNs. Nagesh presents alternative implementations of 3D convolutions on FPGAs, and discusses trade-offs among them.
【DL輪読会】Incorporating group update for speech enhancement based on convolutio...Deep Learning JP
1. The document discusses a research paper on speech enhancement using a convolutional gated recurrent network (CGRN) and ordered neuron long short-term memory (ON-LSTM).
2. The proposed method aims to improve speech quality by incorporating both time and frequency dependencies using CGRN, and handling noise with varying change rates using ON-LSTM.
3. CGRN replaces fully-connected layers with convolutions, allowing it to capture local spatial structures in the frequency domain. ON-LSTM groups neurons based on the change rate of internal information to model hierarchical representations.
This document discusses approaches to programming multiple devices in OpenCL, including using a single context with multiple devices or multiple contexts. With a single context, memory objects are shared but data must be explicitly transferred between devices. Multiple contexts allow splitting work by device but require extra communication. Load balancing work between heterogeneous CPUs and GPUs requires considering scheduling overhead and data location.
- POSTECH EECE695J, "딥러닝 기초 및 철강공정에의 활용", 2017-11-10
- Contents: introduction to reccurent neural networks, LSTM, variants of RNN, implementation of RNN, case studies
- Video: https://youtu.be/pgqiEPb4pV8
[PR12] PR-036 Learning to Remember Rare EventsTaegyun Jeon
This document summarizes a paper on learning to remember rare events using a memory-augmented neural network. The paper proposes a memory module that stores examples from previous tasks to help learn new rare tasks from only a single example. The memory module is trained end-to-end with the neural network on two tasks: one-shot learning on Omniglot characters and machine translation of rare words. The implementation uses a TensorFlow memory module that stores key-value pairs to retrieve examples similar to a query. Experiments show the memory module improves one-shot learning performance and handles rare words better than baselines.
Electricity price forecasting with Recurrent Neural NetworksTaegyun Jeon
This document discusses using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for electricity price forecasting with TensorFlow. It begins with an introduction to the speaker, Taegyun Jeon from GIST. The document then provides an overview of RNNs and their implementation in TensorFlow. It describes two case studies - using an RNN to predict a sine function and using one to forecast electricity prices. The document concludes with information on running and evaluating the RNN graph and a question and answer section.
This document discusses optimizations for implementing an N-body simulation algorithm on GPUs using OpenCL. It begins with an overview of the basic N-body algorithm and its parallel implementation. Two key optimizations are explored: using local memory to enable data reuse across work items, and unrolling the computation loop. Performance results on AMD and Nvidia GPUs show that data reuse provides significant speedup, and loop unrolling further improves performance on the AMD GPU. An example N-body application is provided to experiment with these optimization techniques.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/auvizsystems/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2016-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Nagesh Gupta, Founder and CEO of Auviz Systems, presents the "Semantic Segmentation for Scene Understanding: Algorithms and Implementations" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit.
Recent research in deep learning provides powerful tools that begin to address the daunting problem of automated scene understanding. Modifying deep learning methods, such as CNNs, to classify pixels in a scene with the help of the neighboring pixels has provided very good results in semantic segmentation. This technique provides a good starting point towards understanding a scene. A second challenge is how such algorithms can be deployed on embedded hardware at the performance required for real-world applications. A variety of approaches are being pursued for this, including GPUs, FPGAs, and dedicated hardware.
This talk provides insights into deep learning solutions for semantic segmentation, focusing on current state of the art algorithms and implementation choices. Gupta discusses the effect of porting these algorithms to fixed-point representation and the pros and cons of implementing them on FPGAs.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/altera/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2015-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Deshanand Singh, Director of Software Engineering at Altera, presents the "Efficient Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks using OpenCL on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are becoming increasingly popular in embedded applications such as vision processing and automotive driver assistance systems. The structure of CNN systems is characterized by cascades of FIR filters and transcendental functions. FPGA technology offers a very efficient way of implementing these structures by allowing designers to build custom hardware datapaths that implement the CNN structure. One challenge of using FPGAs revolves around the design flow that has been traditionally centered around tedious hardware description languages.
In this talk, Deshanand gives a detailed explanation of how CNN algorithms can be expressed in OpenCL and compiled directly to FPGA hardware. He gives detail on code optimizations and provides comparisons with the efficiency of hand-coded implementations.
A Platform for Accelerating Machine Learning ApplicationsNVIDIA Taiwan
Robert Sheen from HPE gave a presentation on machine learning applications and accelerating deep learning. He provided a quick introduction to neural networks, discussing their structure and how they are inspired by biological neurons. Deep learning requires high performance computing due to its computational intensity during training. Popular deep learning frameworks like CogX were also discussed, which provide tools and libraries to help build and optimize neural networks. Finally, several enterprise use cases for machine learning and deep learning were highlighted, such as in finance, healthcare, security, and geospatial applications.
This slide is going to introduce the concept of TensorFlow based on the source code study, including tensor, operation, computation graph and execution.
Towards Machine Comprehension of Spoken ContentNVIDIA Taiwan
Hung-yi Lee gave a presentation on developing machine comprehension of spoken content. He discussed using deep learning for speech recognition, spoken content retrieval, key term extraction, summarization, question answering, and organizing information. The goal is for machines to understand spoken audio data by recognizing speech, extracting useful information, and interacting with users to provide relevant results. Several challenges were mentioned, such as the lack of annotated training data for many languages. Preliminary research on learning directly from audio without transcription was also presented.
This document discusses optimizations for deep learning frameworks on Intel CPUs and Fugaku processors. It introduces oneDNN, an Intel performance library for deep neural networks. JIT assembly using Xbyak is proposed to generate optimized code depending on parameters at runtime. Xbyak has been extended to AArch64 as Xbyak_aarch64 to support Fugaku. AVX-512 SIMD instructions are briefly explained.
This document discusses deep learning initiatives at NECSTLab focused on hardware acceleration of convolutional neural networks using FPGAs. It proposes a framework called CNNECST that provides high-level APIs to design CNNs, integrates with machine learning frameworks for training, and generates customized hardware for FPGA implementation through C++ libraries and Vivado. Experimental results show speedups and energy savings for CNNs like LeNet and MNIST on FPGA boards compared to CPU. Challenges and future work include supporting more layer types and reduced precision computations.
This document discusses three important optimizations for GPU performance: thread mapping, device occupancy, and vectorization. Thread mapping involves assigning threads to data in a way that aligns with hardware and provides efficient memory access. Device occupancy refers to how fully the compute unit resources are utilized. Having enough active threads to hide memory latency impacts performance. Vectorization, or processing multiple data elements with each thread, is particularly important for AMD GPUs. Examples are provided of different thread mappings and how they affect memory access and performance.
Ted Willke, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Labs at MLconf NYCMLconf
You Thought What?! The Promise of Real-Time Brain Decoding: What can faster machine learning and new model-based approaches tell us about what someone is really thinking? Recently, Intel joined up with some of the pioneers of brain decoding to understand exactly that. Using functional MRI as our microscope, we began analyzing large amounts of high-dimensional 4-D image data to uncover brain networks that support cognitive processes. But existing image preprocessing, feature selection, and classification techniques are too slow and inaccurate to facilitate the most exciting breakthroughs. In this talk, we’ll discuss the promise of accurate real-time brain decoding and the computational headwinds. And we’ll look at some of the approaches to algorithms and optimization that Intel Labs and its partners are taking to reduce the barriers.
Deep Learning with TensorFlow: Understanding Tensors, Computations Graphs, Im...Altoros
1. The elements of Neural Networks: Weights, Biases, and Gating functions
2. MNIST (Hand writing recognition) using simple NN in TensorFlow (Introduce Tensors, Computation Graphs)
3. MNIST using Convolution NN in TensorFlow
4. Understanding words and sentences as Vectors
5. word2vec in TensorFlow
This document discusses how work groups are scheduled for execution on GPU compute units. It explains that work groups are broken down into hardware schedulable units known as warps or wavefronts. These group threads together and execute instructions in lockstep. The document covers thread scheduling, effects of divergent control flow, predication, warp voting, and optimization techniques like maximizing occupancy.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/auvizsystems/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2015-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Nagesh Gupta, CEO and Founder of Auviz Systems, presents the "Trade-offs in Implementing Deep Neural Networks on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit.
Video and images are a key part of Internet traffic—think of all the data generated by social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram—and this trend continues to grow. Extracting usable information from video and images is thus a growing requirement in the data center. For example, object and face recognition are valuable for a wide range of uses, from social applications to security applications. Deep neural networks are currently the most popular form of convolutional neural networks (CNN) used in data centers for such applications. 3D convolutions are a core part of CNNs. Nagesh presents alternative implementations of 3D convolutions on FPGAs, and discusses trade-offs among them.
【DL輪読会】Incorporating group update for speech enhancement based on convolutio...Deep Learning JP
1. The document discusses a research paper on speech enhancement using a convolutional gated recurrent network (CGRN) and ordered neuron long short-term memory (ON-LSTM).
2. The proposed method aims to improve speech quality by incorporating both time and frequency dependencies using CGRN, and handling noise with varying change rates using ON-LSTM.
3. CGRN replaces fully-connected layers with convolutions, allowing it to capture local spatial structures in the frequency domain. ON-LSTM groups neurons based on the change rate of internal information to model hierarchical representations.
This document discusses approaches to programming multiple devices in OpenCL, including using a single context with multiple devices or multiple contexts. With a single context, memory objects are shared but data must be explicitly transferred between devices. Multiple contexts allow splitting work by device but require extra communication. Load balancing work between heterogeneous CPUs and GPUs requires considering scheduling overhead and data location.
- POSTECH EECE695J, "딥러닝 기초 및 철강공정에의 활용", 2017-11-10
- Contents: introduction to reccurent neural networks, LSTM, variants of RNN, implementation of RNN, case studies
- Video: https://youtu.be/pgqiEPb4pV8
[PR12] PR-036 Learning to Remember Rare EventsTaegyun Jeon
This document summarizes a paper on learning to remember rare events using a memory-augmented neural network. The paper proposes a memory module that stores examples from previous tasks to help learn new rare tasks from only a single example. The memory module is trained end-to-end with the neural network on two tasks: one-shot learning on Omniglot characters and machine translation of rare words. The implementation uses a TensorFlow memory module that stores key-value pairs to retrieve examples similar to a query. Experiments show the memory module improves one-shot learning performance and handles rare words better than baselines.
Electricity price forecasting with Recurrent Neural NetworksTaegyun Jeon
This document discusses using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for electricity price forecasting with TensorFlow. It begins with an introduction to the speaker, Taegyun Jeon from GIST. The document then provides an overview of RNNs and their implementation in TensorFlow. It describes two case studies - using an RNN to predict a sine function and using one to forecast electricity prices. The document concludes with information on running and evaluating the RNN graph and a question and answer section.
This document discusses optimizations for implementing an N-body simulation algorithm on GPUs using OpenCL. It begins with an overview of the basic N-body algorithm and its parallel implementation. Two key optimizations are explored: using local memory to enable data reuse across work items, and unrolling the computation loop. Performance results on AMD and Nvidia GPUs show that data reuse provides significant speedup, and loop unrolling further improves performance on the AMD GPU. An example N-body application is provided to experiment with these optimization techniques.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/auvizsystems/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2016-embedded-vision-summit
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Nagesh Gupta, Founder and CEO of Auviz Systems, presents the "Semantic Segmentation for Scene Understanding: Algorithms and Implementations" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit.
Recent research in deep learning provides powerful tools that begin to address the daunting problem of automated scene understanding. Modifying deep learning methods, such as CNNs, to classify pixels in a scene with the help of the neighboring pixels has provided very good results in semantic segmentation. This technique provides a good starting point towards understanding a scene. A second challenge is how such algorithms can be deployed on embedded hardware at the performance required for real-world applications. A variety of approaches are being pursued for this, including GPUs, FPGAs, and dedicated hardware.
This talk provides insights into deep learning solutions for semantic segmentation, focusing on current state of the art algorithms and implementation choices. Gupta discusses the effect of porting these algorithms to fixed-point representation and the pros and cons of implementing them on FPGAs.
The document discusses Twitter and GitHub accounts, an IPSJ conference, and hardware including an Intel Core i7, FPGA boards from Digilent and ScalableCore, and code snippets for C programs and hardware designs including for a convolutional neural network layer.
MOA is a framework for online machine learning from data streams. It includes algorithms for classification, regression, clustering and frequent pattern mining that can incorporate data and update models on the fly. MOA is closely related to WEKA and includes tools for evaluating streaming algorithms on data from sensors and IoT devices. It provides an environment for designing and running experiments on streaming machine learning algorithms at massive scales.
This document summarizes recent progress and opportunities in analyzing data from global network cameras. It discusses the CAM2 system, a general-purpose computing platform for analyzing large amounts of image data from thousands of cameras worldwide. CAM2 has demonstrated the ability to analyze billions of images per day using cloud computing resources. It aims to provide abundant real-world image data and computing power for computer vision and machine learning applications. The document also outlines several challenges in managing and analyzing data from networked cameras at a large scale.
"The DEBS Grand Challenge 2017" as presented in the The 11th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, 19 - 23 June, 2017 held in Barcelona, Spain
This work was supported by grants from the EU H2020 Framework Programme provided for the project HOBBIT (GA no. 688227).
This document summarizes key points from a presentation on real-time AI systems. It discusses how Moore's law is no longer extending processor performance and how heterogeneous computing platforms with specialized hardware are needed for efficient AI. Emerging platforms include multi-core CPUs with GPUs, FPGAs and custom hardware. The document also outlines techniques for optimizing neural networks for hardware like quantization, pruning and efficient data layout to meet timing constraints in real-time systems.
Real Time Human Posture Detection with Multiple Depth SensorsWassim Filali
This thesis presents a comprehensive study of the state-of-the-art in human posture reconstruction, its contexts, and associated applications. The underlying research focuses on utilization of computer vision techniques for human activity recognition based on embedded system technologies and intelligent camera systems. It also focuses on human posture reconstruction as it plays a key role in subsequent activity recognition. In this work, we have relied on the latest technological advances in sensor technology, specifically on the advent of Kinect, an RGB-D sensor from Microsoft, to realize a low-level sensor fusion algorithm to fuse the outputs of multiple depth sensors for human posture reconstruction.
In this endeavor, the different challenges encountered are: (1) occlusions when using a single sensor; (2) the combinatorial complexity of learning a high dimensional space corresponding to human postures; and finally, (3) embedded systems constraints. The proposed system addresses and consequently resolves each of these challenges.
The fusion of multiple depth sensors gives better result than individual sensors as the fusion alleviates the majority of occlusions by resolving many incoherencies thus by guaranteeing improved robustness and completeness on the observed scene. In this manuscript, we have elaborated the low-level fusion strategy which makes up the main contribution of this thesis. We have adopted a learning technique based on decision forests. Our algorithm is applied on our own learning dataset acquired with our multi-platform kinect coupled to a commercial motion capture system.
The two main principal features are sensor data fusion and supervised learning. Specifically, the data fusion technique is described by acquisition, segmentation, and voxelization which generates a 3D reconstruction of the occupied space. The supervised learning is based on decision forests and uses appropriate descriptors extracted from the reconstructed data. Various experiments including specific parameter learning (tuning) runs have been realized.
Qualitative and quantitative comparative human articulation reconstruction precision evaluations against the state-of-the-art strategies have also been carried out.
The different algorithms have been implemented on a personal computer environment which helped to analyze the essential parts that needs hardware embedded integration. The hardware integration consisted of studying and comparing multiple approaches. FPGA is a platform that meets both the performance and embeddability criteria as it provides resources that reduce CPU cost. This allowed us to make a contribution which constitutes a hierarchically prioritized design via a layer of intermediary modules. Comparative studies have also been done using background subtraction implementation as a benchmark integrated on PC, GPU, and FPGA (the FPGA implementation has been presented in detail).
This document provides tips and best practices for achieving high performance with Java. It discusses measuring performance, optimizing I/O, using memory-mapped files, reusing database connections, and employing techniques like concurrency to improve scaling. The document also presents a case study where various optimizations were applied to analyze call detail records within the required one hour time budget, including splitting workload across threads.
اسلایدهای کارگاه پردازش های موازی با استفاده از زیرساخت جی پی یو GPU
اولین کارگاه ملی رایانش ابری کشور
وحید امیری
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دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر - 1391
This document describes a web-based application called "Path Finding Visualizer" that visualizes shortest path algorithms like Dijkstra's algorithm and A* algorithm. It discusses the motivation, objectives and implementation of the project. The implementation involves creating a graph from a maze, building an adjacency matrix to represent the graph, and applying Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path between nodes. Screenshots show the visualization of Dijkstra's algorithm finding the shortest path between a source and destination node. The technologies used include Visual Studio Code. The project aims to help users better understand how shortest path algorithms work through visualization.
This document summarizes a paper that proposes methods for continuous and parallel LiDAR point cloud clustering. It introduces Lisco, which continuously processes LiDAR data streams to cluster points. P-Lisco parallelizes Lisco's processing pipeline to further improve performance. Evaluation on synthetic and real LiDAR datasets shows P-Lisco achieves real-time processing and outperforms alternative methods like PCL. Future work involves specialized implementations and applying the continuous analysis approach to other related problems.
Efficient architecture to condensate visual information driven by attention ...Sara Granados Cabeza
- The document proposes a novel semidense representation map that condenses dense visual features while highlighting relevant information and preserving uniform region data.
- It applies sparse visual features to enhance relevant points and uses a regular grid in uniform regions. Experimental results show this reduces data requirements while extracting key information and inherently regularizes outputs.
- The method is implemented efficiently on FPGA hardware, providing over 20x bandwidth savings and 15x memory usage reduction compared to dense representations. It allows for real-time integration of feedback from tasks like attention, ground plane detection, and obstacle detection.
Wastian, Brunmeir - Data Analyses in Industrial Applications: From Predictive...Vienna Data Science Group
The document discusses various applications of data analysis and machine learning in industrial settings. It begins with an overview of the presenting organization and definitions of key concepts like machine learning, data mining, and deep learning. It then provides examples of applications including natural language processing on patents and political speeches, predictive maintenance on servers, and image understanding through techniques like HOG features and deep inspection of sensors.
GPUs are specialized processors designed for graphics processing. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) allows general purpose programming on NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA programs launch kernels across a grid of blocks, with each block containing multiple threads that can cooperate. Threads have unique IDs and can access different memory types including shared, global, and constant memory. Applications that map well to this architecture include physics simulations, image processing, and other data-parallel workloads. The future of CUDA includes more general purpose uses through GPGPU and improvements in virtual memory, size, and cooling.
This document discusses tools and services for data intensive research in the cloud. It describes several initiatives by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research related to cloud computing, multicore computing, quantum computing, security and cryptography, and engaging with research partners. It notes that the nature of scientific computing is changing to be more data-driven and exploratory. Commercial clouds are important for research as they allow researchers to start work quickly without lengthy installation and setup times. The document discusses how economics has driven improvements in computing technologies and how this will continue to impact research computing infrastructure. It also summarizes several Microsoft technologies for data intensive computing including Dryad, LINQ, and Complex Event Processing.
Dsd int 2014 - data science symposium - application 1 - point clouds, prof. p...Deltares
This document describes a point cloud data management project involving several organizations. It outlines the goals of developing a scalable infrastructure for storing, managing, and querying massive point cloud datasets. It also describes plans to design benchmarks for testing functionality and performance, as well as potential standardization efforts. Key aspects of the project include developing a database extension to support point cloud data types, designing a web service protocol, and executing benchmarks on a range of systems and datasets.
Interactive Latency in Big Data Visualizationbigdataviz_bay
Interactive Latency in Big Data Visualization
Zhicheng "Leo" Liu, Research Scientist at the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Research
January 22nd, 2014
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Conservation of energy
Conservation of momentum
The continuum assumption
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Bubble Sort,
Insertion Sort,
Selection Sort,
Quick Sort and
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Radix Sort, and
Shell Sort,
External Sorting, Time complexity analysis of Sorting Algorithms.
A Random Forest using a Multi-valued Decision Diagram on an FPGa
1. A Random Forest using a Multi-valued
Decision Diagram on an FPGA
1Hiroki Nakahara, 1Akira Jinguji, 1Shimpei Sato,
2Tsutomu Sasao
1Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP, 2Meiji University, JP
May, 22nd, 2017
@ISMVL2017
3. Machine Learning
3
Much computation power, and Big data
(Left): “Single-Threaded Integer Performance,” 2016
(Right): Nakahara, “Trend of Search Engine on modern Internet,” 2014
5. Introduction
• Random Forest (RF)
• Ensemble learning method
• Consists of multiple decision trees (DTs)
• Applications: Segmentation, human pose
detection
• It is based on binary DTs (BDTs)
• A node is evaluated by an if-then-else
statement
• The same variable may appear several times
• Multiple-valued decision diagram (MDD)
• Each variable appears only once on a path
5
6. Introduction (Contʼd)
• Target platform
• CPU: Too slow
• GPU: Not suitable to the RF → slow, and
consumes much power
• FPGA: Faster, low power, long TAT
• High-level synthesis (HLS) for the RF using
MDDs on an FPGA
• Low power, high performance,
short design time
6
8. Classification by a Binary
Decision Tree (BDT)
• Partition of the feature map
1.00
0.53
0.29
0.00
0.09
0.63
0.71
1.00
C1
C2 C1
C
1
C2 C1
X1
X2
X2<0.53?
X2<0.29? X1<0.09?
X1<0.63? X1<0.71?
Y N
N
NN
NY
Y
Y
Y
C1
C1C2 C1C2
C1
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9. Training of a BDT
• It is built by randomized samples
• Recursively partition the dataset to maximize its
entropy → The same variables may appear
9
1.00
0.53
0.29
0.00
0.09
0.63
0.71
1.00
C1
C2 C1
C
1 C2 C1
X1
X2
X2<0.53?
X2<0.29? X1<0.09?
X1<0.63? X1<0.71?
Y N
N
NN
NY
Y
Y
Y
C1
C1C2 C1C2
C1
10. Random Forest (RF)
• Ensemble learning
• Classification and regression
• Consists of multiple BDT
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Tree 1 Tree 2 Tree n
C1
C2
C1
Voter
C1 (Class)
InputX1<0.53?
X3<0.71? X2<0.63?
X2<0.63? X3<0.72?
Y N
N
NN
NY
Y
Y
Y
C1
C1C2 C1C3
C1
Tree 1
Binary Decision Tree (BDT) Random Forest
...
11. Applications
• Key point matching [Lepetit et al., 2006]
• Object detector [Shotton et al., 2008][Gall et al., 2011]
• Hand written character recognition [Amit&Geman, 1997]
• Visual word clustering
[Moosmann et al.,2006]
• Pose recognition
[Yamashita et al., 2010]
• Human detector
[Mitsui et al., 2011]
[Dahang et al., 2012]
• Human pose estimation
[Shotton 2011]
11
12. Known Problem
• Build BDTs from randomized samples
• The same variable may appear on a path
• Tend to be slow, even if we use the GPUs
12
X2<0.53?
X2<0.29? X2<0.09?
X1<0.63? X1<0.71?
Y N
N
NN
NY
Y
Y
Y
C1
C1C2 C1C2
C1
if X2 < 0.09 then
output C1;
else
goto Child_node;
14. 14
Binary Decision Diagram (BDD)
• Recursively apply Shannon expansion to a
given logic function
• Non-terminal node: If-then-else statement
• Terminal node: Set functional value
0 1
x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
x6
Non‐terminal node
Terminal node
15. 15
Measurement of BDD
Memory size: # of nodes size of a node
Worst case performance: LPL (Longest Path Length)
→Dedicated fully pipeline hardware
0 1
x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
x6
16. 16
Multi-Valued Decision Diagram (MDD)
• MDD(k): 2k outgoing edges
• Evaluates k variables at a time
0 1
x1
x2
x3
x4
x5
x6
BDD
0 1
X3
X2
X1
{x5,x6}
{x3,x4}
{x1,x2}
MDD(2)
17. Comparison the BDT with the MDD
17
X2<0.53?
X2<0.29? X1<0.09?
X1<0.63? X1<0.71?
Y N
N
NN
NY
Y
Y
Y
C1
C1C2 C1C2
C1
X2
X1 X1
C1 C2
<0.29
<0.53
<1.00
<1.00
<0.71
<0.71
<1.00
<0.63
BDT MDD
19. Complexities of the BDT
and the MDD
19
# Nodes LPL
BDT O(Σ|Xi|) O(Σ|Xi|)
MDD O(|Xi|k) O(n)
The RF prefers shallow decision trees for avoid
the overfitting
21. FPGA (Field Programmable
Gate Array)
• Reconfigurable architecture
• Look-up Table (LUT)
• Configurable channel
• Advantages
• Faster than CPU
• Dissipate lower power
than GPU
• Short time design
than ASIC
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24. System Design Tool
24
①
②
④
③
1. Behavior design
+ pragmas
2. Profile analysis
3. IP core generation by HLS
4. Bitstream generation by
FPGA CAD tool
5. Middle ware generation
↓
Automatically done
28. Comparison of Platforms
• Implemented RF following devices
• CPU: Intel Core i7 650
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan
• FPGA: Terasic DE5-NET
• Measure dynamic power including
the host PC
• Test bench: 10,000 random vectors
• Execution time including
communication time between
the host PC and devices
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GPU
FPGA
30. Conclusion
• Proposed the RF using MDDs
• Reduced the path length
• Increased the column multiplicity
• # of nodes: O(|X|k)
• The shallow decision diagram is
recommended to avoid the overfitting
• Developed the high-level synthesis design
flow toward the FPGA realization
• 10.7x faster than the GPU
• 14.0x faster than the CPU
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