Distributed Embedded Deep Learning based Real-time Video Processing

There arises the needs for fast processing of continuous video data using embedded devices, for example the one needed for UAV aerial photography. In this paper, we proposed a distributed embedded platform built with NVIDIA Jetson TX1 using deep learning techniques for real time video processing, mainly for object detection. We design a Storm based distributed real-time computation platform and ran object detection algorithm based on convolutional neural networks. We have evaluated the performance of our platform by conducting real-time object detection on surveillance video. Compared with the high end GPU processing of NVIDIA TITAN X, our platform achieves the same processing speed but a much lower power consumption when doing the same work. At the same time, our platform had a good scalability and fault tolerance, which is suitable for intelligent mobile devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles or self-driving cars.