Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE)
Abstract
The Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE) program created a new generation of computing structures, enabling revolutionary advances in real-time sensor data analysis. To demonstrate the impact of this advance, the program improved the performance and power efficiency of detecting and tracking objects in video streams. Today, computer-based object detection and tracking requires matching an object of interest to its high-precision digital representation, which is an inherently power-hungry process. UPSIDE instead employed an approach known as approximate computing which operates very efficiently on both semiconductor-based electronic devices and emerging alternative devices without sacrificing accuracy. UPSIDE demonstrated five to seven orders of magnitude improvement in the power efficiency and performance of real-time sensor data analysis. The UPSIDE computing approach was benchmarked against a DoD-relevant image processing pipeline to verify gains in both throughput and power efficiency.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 422b4295e3dfc1d3d1b47c6774700baf