Efficient Mobile Implementation of A CNN-based Object Recognition System
Keiji Yanai, Ryosuke Tanno, Koichi Okamoto · 2016
Because of the recent progress on deep learning studies, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based method have outperformed conventional object recognition methods with a large margin. However, it requires much more memory and computational costs compared to the conventional methods. Therefore, it is not easy to implement a CNN-based object recognition system on a mobile device where memory and computational power are limited. In this paper, we examine CNN architectures which are suitable for mobile implementation, and propose multi-scale network-in-networks (NIN) in which users can adjust the trade-off between recognition time and accuracy. We implemented multi-threaded mobile applications on both iOS and Android employing either NEON SIMD instructions or the BLAS library for fast computation of convolutional layers, and compared them in terms of recognition time on mobile devices. As results, it has been revealed that BLAS is better for iOS, while NEON is better for Android, and that reducing the size of an input image by resizing is very effective for speedup of CNN-based recognition.