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AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by joshvm »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

100 GFLOPS can process deep learning predictions on HD video in real time? I thought even GPUs like the GTX 1080 (8.8 TFLOPS) had difficulty with that.

Most of the time you don't need pixel-level classification. Suppose you want to make a cat tracker. How small can you shrink an HD image and still reliably detect a cat (using your own brain)? Pretty small. Probably less than a quarter of the size at least. Do you need colour? Often you can get away without it, so that's a third of the data gone too. For full-image classification you could go even smaller and still be accurate.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by dwyerm »

conorh wrote: post #17
caio1982 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please submit a post about this project, with juicy details!

Sure will do, mostly I've been training squirrel recognition models on my laptop and also learning what it takes to run those models on the raspberry pi (low frame rates) with OpenCV. I did also buy one of these though https://www.adafruit.com/product/997 so once I get everything running I may also have videos of squirrels being sprayed by the garden hose :)

It's it kind of funny... one of the first home-brew CV projects I ever saw was an engineer's system that would unlock the cat flap door when it detected the cat's silhouette. A desirable side effect is that it would not open the door when the cat was carrying a rodent corpse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080913222639/http://www.quantu...

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by danvoell »

ryankupyn wrote: post #4

This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.

Do you really think its niche? Sure its not going to be a GoPro consumer product but the market for "smart video cameras" or whatever you want to call video+insight is going to be pretty darn big. This seems like this easiest foray into combining a video camera with learning with limited bandwidth issues. My only concern is whether or not Google will come out with something similar in the near term.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by amelius »

joshvm wrote: post #31
minimaxir wrote: post #2

100 GFLOPS can process deep learning predictions on HD video in real time? I thought even GPUs like the GTX 1080 (8.8 TFLOPS) had difficulty with that.

Most of the time you don't need pixel-level classification. Suppose you want to make a cat tracker. How small can you shrink an HD image and still reliably detect a cat (using your own brain)? Pretty small. Probably less than a quarter of the size at least. Do you need colour? Often you can get away without it, so that's a third of the data gone too. For full-image classification you could go even smaller and still b…

Also, you don't have to train all the time. Most of the time, you're in inference mode.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by tanilama »

danvoell wrote: post #34
ryankupyn wrote: post #4

This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product? If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.

Do you really think its niche? Sure its not going to be a GoPro consumer product but the market for "smart video cameras" or whatever you want to call video+insight is going to be pretty darn big. This seems like this easiest foray into combining a video camera with learning with limited bandwidth issues. My only concern is whether or not Google will come out with something similar in the near term.

Surely Google will come with one. Or something under Android umbrella. Only concern is, Google's hardware is at best meh level, while Amazon had better reputation in that front.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by BatFastard »

msie wrote: post #33

How soon before someone attaches a gun and legs to this thing? (see: Portal)

I know at the military level it does in the Phalanx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS which basically shots a stream of lead which must require one hell of a gimble!

I was imagining hooking up an old airsoft gun to one, legal, cheap, effective deterrent for small animals.

This is another example of tech beating the hell out of laws.

Re: AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers

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Post by BatFastard »

GistNoesis wrote: post #27

Shameless related plug : We recently developed a deep-learning powered 2-axis-gimbal for a webcam : https://github.com/GistNoesis/Linn-Photobooth . We do use deep-learning either for deep-art or for pose tracking. I guess we can probably control the gimbal with this new camera though I'm not sure It will be able to process deep art. In my other usages, usually I have multiple cheap webcams with cheap board (IP cams o…

That sounds cool, but after reading the webpage I am still not sure what it actually does. It prints a picture, you can change art style, what's the point of the gimbal?
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