Search Results for author: Francis Li

Found 12 papers, 3 papers with code

DVQI: A Multi-task, Hardware-integrated Artificial Intelligence System for Automated Visual Inspection in Electronics Manufacturing

no code implementations14 Dec 2023 Audrey Chung, Francis Li, Jeremy Ward, Andrew Hryniowski, Alexander Wong

In this paper, we present the DarwinAI Visual Quality Inspection (DVQI) system, a hardware-integration artificial intelligence system for the automated inspection of printed circuit board assembly defects in an electronics manufacturing environment.

PCBDet: An Efficient Deep Neural Network Object Detection Architecture for Automatic PCB Component Detection on the Edge

no code implementations23 Jan 2023 Brian Li, Steven Palayew, Francis Li, Saad Abbasi, Saeejith Nair, Alexander Wong

There can be numerous electronic components on a given PCB, making the task of visual inspection to detect defects very time-consuming and prone to error, especially at scale.

Edge-computing object-detection +1

State of Compact Architecture Search For Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations15 Oct 2019 Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Andrew Hryniowski, Francis Li, Zhong Qiu Lin, Alexander Wong

A particularly interesting class of compact architecture search algorithms are those that are guided by baseline network architectures.

YOLO Nano: a Highly Compact You Only Look Once Convolutional Neural Network for Object Detection

4 code implementations3 Oct 2019 Alexander Wong, Mahmoud Famuori, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Brendan Chwyl, Jonathan Chung

As such, there has been growing research interest in the design of efficient deep neural network architectures catered for edge and mobile usage.

Object object-detection +1

FermiNets: Learning generative machines to generate efficient neural networks via generative synthesis

no code implementations17 Sep 2018 Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chwyl, Francis Li

In this study, we introduce the idea of generative synthesis, which is premised on the intricate interplay between a generator-inquisitor pair that work in tandem to garner insights and learn to generate highly efficient deep neural networks that best satisfies operational requirements.

Image Classification object-detection +2

Tiny SSD: A Tiny Single-shot Detection Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Real-time Embedded Object Detection

1 code implementation19 Feb 2018 Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Brendan Chwyl

The resulting Tiny SSD possess a model size of 2. 3MB (~26X smaller than Tiny YOLO) while still achieving an mAP of 61. 3% on VOC 2007 (~4. 2% higher than Tiny YOLO).

Object object-detection +2

StressedNets: Efficient Feature Representations via Stress-induced Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations16 Jan 2018 Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chwyl, Francis Li, Rongyan Chen, Michelle Karg, Christian Scharfenberger, Alexander Wong

The computational complexity of leveraging deep neural networks for extracting deep feature representations is a significant barrier to its widespread adoption, particularly for use in embedded devices.

object-detection Object Detection

SquishedNets: Squishing SqueezeNet further for edge device scenarios via deep evolutionary synthesis

no code implementations20 Nov 2017 Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Brendan Chwyl, Alexander Wong

While deep neural networks have been shown in recent years to outperform other machine learning methods in a wide range of applications, one of the biggest challenges with enabling deep neural networks for widespread deployment on edge devices such as mobile and other consumer devices is high computational and memory requirements.

Fast YOLO: A Fast You Only Look Once System for Real-time Embedded Object Detection in Video

1 code implementation18 Sep 2017 Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Brendan Chywl, Francis Li, Alexander Wong

Object detection is considered one of the most challenging problems in this field of computer vision, as it involves the combination of object classification and object localization within a scene.

Object object-detection +2

Exploring the Imposition of Synaptic Precision Restrictions For Evolutionary Synthesis of Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations1 Jul 2017 Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Francis Li, Alexander Wong

A key contributing factor to incredible success of deep neural networks has been the significant rise on massively parallel computing devices allowing researchers to greatly increase the size and depth of deep neural networks, leading to significant improvements in modeling accuracy.

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