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April 13, 2023
Xailient’s Detectum performs both Localization and Classification of objects in images and video and has been demonstrated to outperform the industry-leading YOLOv3 by 98.7%.
YOLO v3 is the leading AI architecture for computer vision. Traditionally, YOLO and object detection algorithms, in general, are run on Cloud infrastructure. Cloud costs, Bandwidth costs, and Network latency issues are driving industry to innovate ways to process Computer Vision at the Edge.
1Xailient has proven the Detectum software performs Computer Vision 98.7% more efficiently without losing accuracy.
2Customers can train the Detectum software with their training data, creating a unique solution.
3They can deploy it at the Edge, in the Cloud, or in a hybrid. This provides cost advantages and technical flexibility never before available to Computer Vision innovators.
Using an open-source training dataset, Xailient trained both a traditional YOLO3 object detection neural network and a Tiny-YOLO using standard methods. These provided the baseline of state-of-the-art in both Cloud and Edge-optimized AI and measured the compromise in accuracy required in shrinking AI to fit at the Edge. The AI was trained to see cars, trucks, and pedestrians (the objects of interest).
Xailient trained 2 YOLO neural nets; a standard Cloud-based YOLO3 neural net and an Edge ready Tiny-YOLO neural net, and compared these against a Detectum neural net. All neural nets used the same training data and test data.
The images used in the test data were all different, with no data in common. The test data was not sequential frames from a related video.
The hardware used was the same in all tests. All neural nets were run on Google Cloud Platform and fed pre-annotated test data as input. The neural nets were measured for accuracy (mAP) and performance (inference time). The Baseline YOLO3 Cloud Baseline had an accuracy of 66.8% mean average precision (mAP), and Tiny-YOLO Edge Baseline had an accuracy of 40.6%.
The results were unprecedented; Xailient achieved the same accuracy 76x faster than the Cloud Baseline and was 8x faster than the Edge Baseline without the accuracy penalty.
Xailient has proven a new way for Edge AI that does not require compromises in accuracy.
Until today, Computer Vision faced a fundamental barrier; more accuracy required exponentially more computation. Breaking through this frontier, the “AI Sound Barrier” will unlock an explosion in the adoption of Computer Vision by improving the profitability of everyday and innovative use cases.
Xailient has broken this barrier.
The Computer Vision market is expected to reach US$35 Billion by 2023, an analyst projection based on the old assumptions about cost structures. A 100:1 improvement in costs will liberate many business cases that were formerly uneconomical, catalyzing an unimagined explosion in the adoption and application of Computer Vision.
The Detectum Neural Networks work best when trained to the specific purposes for which they are deployed. Training data and configuration parameters can all be adjusted to fit to purpose. The results obtained in this pilot project, while dramatic, are just a starting place in how Xailient can help Computer Vision innovators.
In the highly-cited 2017 CVPR paper “Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern
convolutional object detectors,” the authors outlined the relationship between accuracy and Inference time. While the nominal time required can be improved by adding computation hardware, it was thought, until now, that the cost of accuracy was fundamental: more accuracy needed more time.
Xailient has broken the Accuracy-Computation barrier for the first time, delivering greater accuracy at faster speeds.
The images used in the test data were all different, with no data in common. The test data is not sequential frames from a related video. The hardware used was the same in all tests.
Xailient enables customers to deploy Computer Vision systems that are so efficient they can run at the Edge, even on existing hardware. Customers only transmit results and can build a Cloud-focused on their business logic.
The cost-savings impact of Detectum goes beyond a 76x improvement and can approach 100% reduction. For example, the Detectum can skip the transmission and computation cost of empty images. Customers eliminate waste and optimize accuracy, cost, and speed by focusing only on what matters, both across the view and across time.
When deploying new hardware, the Detectum software allows for smaller chips and can reduce capital expense by 90% or more. The Detectum is delivered by software update for customers with existing IP cameras — No hardware to purchase or deploy.
Every Xailient customer is different, and Xailient provides the ability to train a Detectum on custom datasets. Each resulting Detectum is unique; customers retain ownership of their training data, and Xailient does not distribute a custom Detectum to anyone else.
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