This website is for the course intro to Edge AI https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25 Saral Tayal , David Cooper , and Tianhao Ye - Our project aimed to create an exercise-counter wearable based on a 6-axis IMU that would strap on their wrist, like a smartwatch, to count reps of various exercises performed. The motivation behind this was helping individuals at the gym keep... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-workout/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-workout/ Sai Mitheran J., Omar Alama, Abdullah Alaijan - Our project delivers a machine learning innovation to revolutionize self-checkout systems in the retail sector by introducing YOLOv8 [1] on the Jetson Nano that proficiently identifies and tallies a wide range of produce. This system tackles the challenge of manual... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-produce/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-produce/ Aishwarya Joshi, Iris Dong, and Sreekesh Devanathan - Our main goal is to create a system which allows users to control light color and/or brightness through the use of speech commands. The commands would be preceded by a wake word, “nano”, to indicate that a command has been... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-light_control/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-light_control/ Nathan Litzinger, Saurabh Roychowdhury, and Saumya Bhandarkar - Paying for parking is still a hassle in 2023. Whether in a garage or on the street, there is no single, low-cost, ubiquitous system that can be deployed everywhere. Therefore, we set out to create a low-cost, automated parking detection... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-license_plate/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-license_plate/ Cheng-De (Jerry) Lin and Tejas Bana - Deep learning (DL) has been a primary security concern of the data leak. Several studies have reported that laptop keystrokes can be classified by DL and a microphone that records the keystroke acoustics. However, much uncertainty still exists about the... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-keyboard/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-keyboard/ Shanmuga Venkatachalam, Harideep Nair, Prabhu Vellaisamy, and Yongqi (Aria) Zhou - Each person has a unique gait, i.e., walking style, that can be used as a biometric for personal identification. Recent works have demonstrated effective gait recognition using deep neural networks, however most of these works predominantly focus on classification accuracy... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-gait/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-gait/ Latifah Almaghrabi - Semiterrestrial crabs evolved adaptations that allow them to stay out of the water for extended periods of time. The implication is that they experience and contribute to a rich soundscape. The project reported here aims to detect and classify sounds... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-crab/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-crab/ Gokulapriyan Balaji, Prithviraj Vijayaraj, and Revanth Varma Kantheti - Learn boxing moves of punch, hook, upper, and block with this wearable device. Our project aimed to create an exercise-counter wearable based on a 6-axis IMU that would strap on their wrist, like a smartwatch, to count reps of various... Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-boxing/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-12-30-boxing/ Omkar Savkur, Nicholas Toldalagi, and Kevin Xie - With the rise of wearable personal electronics such as the smartwatch, more and more users have a capable edge computing device and sensing suite at their fingertips. Despite this, few projects have investigated how to perform continuous, power-efficient Human Activity... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-where/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-where/ Jacky Wang and Gordonson Yan - The key feature of SBTrashCat is to use the acoustic fingerprint of containers made with different materials to determine their categorization. For our baseline, SBTrashCat can identify containers including aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and tetra-pak. To ensure the robustness of... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-trash-categorization/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-trash-categorization/ Jong-Ik Park, Chad Taylor, and Anudeep Bolimera - The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the growing number of edge devices have significantly increased the amount of data generated and processed. This shift has led to a rising demand for efficient and cost-effective embedded systems... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-multi-node/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-multi-node/ Abhishek Basrithaya and Yuyang Xu - An electric motor is a rudimentary electro-mechanical device that is ubiquitous from wheels of an automobile, fans, automatic windows shades to magnetic disks for memory storage etc. Efficient operation of these fundamental devices is imperative for the smooth operation of... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-motor-care/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-motor-care/ Netra Trivedi, Rishi Pachipulusu, and Cathy Tungyun - In a warehouse or a retail setup: Given a frame of reference, our model indicates the percentage of empty spaces with reference to a shelf full of boxes (either rectangular or square) for new inventory. Our dataset consists of 221... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-inventory-management/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-inventory-management/ Samuel Leong and Alex Strasser - Wearables are getting increasingly popular and feasible as computing power becomes smaller and more powerful. Indeed, the advent of advanced sensors and intelligence being packed into smaller packages opens up new opportunities for novel applications. In “Feel the Vibe”, we... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-feel-the-vibe/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-feel-the-vibe/ Ajith Potluri, Eion Tyacke, and Parker Crain - This project investigates on-device deep learning models paired with an embedded system that can be used to track the movement of a dog for its owner. This valuable insight may help an owner to better understand the activities of the... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-dog-fitbit/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-dog-fitbit/ James Li, Pingyuan Liang, and Xuanye Li - The visually impaired encounter a number of difficulties when crossing streets. Without auditory information from parallel traffic, blind pedestrians can easily veer away from crosswalks. Complicated road junctions may also confuse a blind pedestrian’s ability to accurately determine the location... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-cross-walk-aid/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-cross-walk-aid/ Eric Wu, Harry Rosmann, and Blaine Huey - The idea originated from an animal status monitor and evolved into a bird feeder monitoring system with squirrel detection. We are running two models on the Arduino Nano 33 BLE. The first model detects whether the approaching animal is a... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-bird_feeder/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-bird_feeder/ Adeesh Bhargava, Varun Jain, and Rohan Paranjape - The goal of our project is to use cutting-edge computer vision techniques in combination with embedded devices to help people improve their exercise form while also prioritizing their health and safety. While modern computer vision algorithms are able to detect... Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-athlete_tech/ https://www.samy101.com/edge-ai-25/2023-05-10-athlete_tech/