Suppose you want to do object detection on a phone’s live camera stream. Running your model on aws is probably infeasible, because you’re killing the users data

Suppose you want to do object detection on a phone’s live camera stream. Running your model on aws is probably infeasible, because you’re killing the users data plan while streaming frames into your remote model, and network latency kills the user experience. On-device detection (“edge ai”) is gaining steam. Apple recently purchased a company called xnor.ai which specialized in optimizing models for low power conditions.