The Fifth Elephant 2019

Open source models like Imagenet and Resnet have opened the door to enable millions of computer vision use cases. But launching enterprise computer vision application doesn’t end when the model is trained - that’s just the first step. To build an end-to-end solution, one needs to understand the appropriate steps and best practices to follow.

If you are planning to build and launch a computer vision application, you need to consider what happens to the ML model after it has reached a level of accuracy and performance for your use case. How exactly are you going to architect your application software? How are you going to deploy and scale models to potentially hundreds or thousands of devices in production? How do you extract useful information from the models for retraining? Where do you store the results and metrics of the predictions? Is your application mission critical, or can the model be run offline? How do you setup a vision ML pipeline that doesn’t break the bank or require an army of engineers and computer vision experts to maintain?

In this presentation, Dori will focus specifically on challenges that every enterprise application developer will face when building a computer vision application and how to set the enterprise up for success. The talk will draw from previous examples of how typical software pipelines have been set up and demonstrate the best practices to quickly build machine learning computer vision pipelines that can scale to millions of deployments. The talk will also cover best practices of how to effectively benchmark and monitor your machine learning model in order to continuously improve the quality and system performance.

Outline

Evolution of Computer Vision

• Introduction into how computer vision models have evolved
• Accuracy & performance improvements over the past few years
• Acceptability of deep learning in enterprise use cases

Why Now?

• Discussion of the opportunity that Open Source has created for deep learning
• The disparity of choice that open source has created

The Enterprise Challenge

• Why do enterprises still struggle to productize a single model?
• What questions need to be answered to create an AI application?
• What tools & infrastructure are needed?

Setting Up a Robust Pipeline

• A formula for success to set up a robust ML development pipeline
• Why benchmarking and monitoring are key steps of the ML development lifecycle
• Model/System metrics vs Business Metrics - what is important?
• How to extract value and useful data from a model in production

Requirements

Come with an open mind to learn.

Speaker bio

Nitin Gupta helped found Dori with the vision of enabling the applied AI market with a platform that accelerates the adoption of AI/ML across major vertical industries. He has 12+ years of experience leading product/architecture in complex edge, mobile, and computer vision systems.

Prior to Dori, Nitin was a product lead at Google responsible for commercializing AI/ML systems for VRCore/ARCore products within the Daydream team and also led teams at Pebble and Qualcomm. His Ph.D. work involved novel search algorithms to achieve timing closure for embedded SOC designs.

Links

• Speaker Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-gupta-a37b0289/
• Dori Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZ0QqNH_0c

Slides

http://www.comingsoon.com