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Neural Architecture Design for Human Classification

Amazon Lab126 is an American research and development and computer hardware company owned by Amazon.com. It was founded in 2004 by Gregg Zehr, previously Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Palm, and is based in Sunnyvale, California. Deep neural networks trained on Imagenet like Resnet and MobileNetV2 are capable of detecting 1000 classes. However for practical usage, only a handful of classes are required to detect. For example for security cameras only human detection is required. This student team sought to find a network, including building a new model architecture, that shows best detection accuracy for detection of Humans. A key performance indicator was how much reduction of model size and compute measured in FLOPs. Advanced techniques for quantizing, clustering, and pruning (if used) would be a huge plus. Also performance numbers measured on edge device like Raspberry Pi would also be a plus.

Faculty Adviser(s)

Payman Arabshahi, Associate Professor, UW ECE, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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