2018 Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge

Sergei Alyamkin, Matthew Ardi, Achille Brighton, Alexander C. Berg, Yiran Chen, Hsin-Pai Cheng, Bo Chen, Zichen Fan, Chen Feng, Bo Fu, Kent Gauen, Jongkook Go, Alexander Goncharenko, Xuyang Guo, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Andrew Howard, Yuanjun Huang, Donghyun Kang, Jaeyoun Kim, Alexander Kondratyev et al. (21 additional authors not shown)

Abstract: The Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC, https://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/lpirc) is an annual competition started in 2015. The competition identifies the best technologies that can classify and detect objects in images efficiently (short execution time and low energy consumption) and accurately (high precision). Over the four years, the winners' scores have improved more than 24 times. As computer vision is widely used in many battery-powered systems (such as drones and mobile phones), the need for low-power computer vision will become increasingly important. This paper summarizes LPIRC 2018 by describing the three different tracks and the winners' solutions.