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Accelerated Visual Context Classification on a Low-Power Smartwatch
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DOI：10.1109/THMS.2016.2623482.png)
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Data produced by wearable sensors is key in contexts such as performance enhancement and training help for sports and fitness, continuous monitoring for aging people and for chronic disease management, and in gaming and entertainment. Unfortunately, wearable devices currently in the market are either incapable of complex functionality or severely impaired by short battery lifetime. In this work, we present a smartwatch platform based on an ultralow-power (ULP) heterogeneous system composed of a TI MSP430 microcontroller, the PULP programmable parallel accelerator, and a set of ULP sensors, including a camera. The embedded PULP accelerator enables state-of-the-art context classification based on convolutional neural networks to be applied within a sub-10-mW system power envelope. Our methodology enables to reach high accuracy in context classification over five classes (up to 84%, with three classes over five reaching more than 90% accuracy), while consuming 2.2 mJ per classification, or an ultralow energy consumption of less than 91 mu J per classification with an accuracy of 64%-3.2xbetter than chance. Our results suggest that the proposed heterogeneous platform can provide up to 500x speedup with respect to the MSP430 within a similar power envelope, which would enable complex computer vision algorithms to be executed in highly power-constrained scenarios.
Keywords:
Energy efficiency
low-power electronics
machine vision
wearable computers
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