arXiv AI
5d ago

Smart Surveillance: Deep Learning and Hybrid Approaches for Dynamic Scene Analysis, Object Detection and Motion Tracking

The paper evaluates event-triggered recording strategies for static surveillance cameras, comparing six motion-based triggers, a CNN detector, strided detection, and hybrid approaches on a benchmark of seven scenes. Detector-based triggers reduce idle frame storage to 19‑28% versus 36‑89% for motion triggers, and remain robust under camera jitter, keeping under 29% idle frames. In addition, the study shows that increasing YOLO11n input resolution improves detection accuracy more than larger models, and that longer track memory boosts tracking IDF1, though detection remains the limiting factor.

By Shahran Rahman Alve
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

The Shape of Events: Edge-Based Inductive Biases via Cross-Domain Distillation

The paper investigates how knowledge distillation from event cameras to RGB images can alter the inductive biases of convolutional neural networks. By transferring learning from the event domain, the authors find that models gain color invariance, a shape bias, and improved robustness to high‑frequency noise, largely due to reduced reliance on texture and increased emphasis on edge‑based object shape. These changes are evidenced by early‑layer processing differences and a spectral trade‑off between robustness to missing high‑frequency content and vulnerability to its contamination or geometric disruption.

By Soshun Kihara, Shunsuke Yasuki, Masato Taki
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

A 25-$\mu$s/inf Event-driven Graph Neural Network Processor with Spatiotemporal Caching and Spline Convolution for Ultra-low-latency AI at the Edge

The paper introduces ETHEREAL, the first accelerator for event-driven graph neural networks (EV‑GNNs) that can handle 640×480 resolution inputs. It achieves this through a neighbor‑parallel spline convolution engine and a 2D/3D‑split memory hierarchy that includes a novel region‑of‑interest spatiotemporal caching mechanism. Measurements show end‑to‑end inference latency of 25.6 µs and energy consumption of 1.7 µJ per event on state‑of‑the‑art workloads.

By Adrian Kneip, Martin Lefebvre, Daniel Gehrig, Victoria Catal\'an Pastor, Davide Scaramuzza, Marian Verhelst, Charlotte Frenkel