Embedded Intelligence for Safety and Security Machine Vision Applications

Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced a recent increase in use across a wide variety of domains, such as image processing for security applications. Deep learning, a subset of AI, is particularly useful for those image processing applications. Deep learning methods can achieve state-of-the-art results on computer vision for image classification, object detection, and face recognition applications. This allows to automate video surveillance reducing human intervention. At the same time, although deep learning is a very intensive task in terms of computing resources, hardware and software improvements have emerged, allowing embedded systems to implement sophisticated machine learning algorithms at the edge. Hardware manufacturers have developed powerful co-processors specifically designed to execute deep learning algorithms. But also, new lightweight open-source middleware for constrained resources devices such as EdgeX foundry have emerged to facilitate the collection and processing of data at sensor level, with communication capabilities to cloud enterprise applications. The aim of this work is to show and describe the development of Smart Camera Systems within S4AllCities H2020 project, following the edge approach.