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Data-Driven Pixel Control: Challenges and Prospects

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Saurabh Farkya
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Zachary Daniels *
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Aswin Raghavan
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G. van der Wal
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Michael Isnardi
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Michael Piacentino
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DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-94895-4_27delete
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Recent advancements in sensors have led to high resolution and high data throughput at the pixel level. Simultaneously, the adoption of increasingly large (deep) neural networks (NNs) has lead to significant progress in computer vision. Currently, visual intelligence comes at increasingly high computational complexity, energy, and latency. We study a data-driven system that combines dynamic sensing at the pixel level with computer vision analytics at the video level and propose a feedback control loop to minimize data movement between the sensor front-end and computational back-end without compromising detection and tracking precision. Our contributions are threefold: (1) We introduce anticipatory attention and show that it leads to high precision prediction with sparse activation of pixels; (2) Leveraging the feedback control, we show that the dimensionality of learned feature vectors can be significantly reduced with increased sparsity; and (3) We emulate analog design choices (such as varying RGB or Bayer pixel format and analog noise) and study their impact on the key metrics of the data-driven system. Comparative analysis with traditional pixel and deep learning models shows significant performance enhancements. Our system achieves a 10X reduction in bandwidth and a 15-30X improvement in Energy-Delay Product (EDP) when activating only 30% of pixels, with a minor reduction in object detection and tracking precision. Based on analog emulation, our system can achieve a throughput of 205 megapixels/sec (MP/s) with a power consumption of only 110 mW per MP, i.e., a theoretical improvement of similar to 30X in EDP.
Keywords:
In-Pixel Computing
Active Sensing
Multi-Object Tracking
DDDAS
Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems
InfoSymbiotic Systems

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DYNAMIC DATA DRIVEN APPLICATIONS SYSTEMS, DDDAS/INFOSYMBIOTICS FOR RELIABLE AI 2024
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