Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE)
Abstract
The objective of the Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE) program is to achieve extreme power savings while increasing performance for object detection and tracking from video streams by using an unconventional, approximate computing approach. Today, image processing applications use high precision, digital representations, which are inherently power-inefficient, particular for data produced by noisy, analog, real-time sensors such as video. UPSIDE's unconventional approach uses pattern matching techniques that map very efficiently to both analog complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits and various emerging devices. Furthermore, this pattern matching approach can leverage the physics of certain emerging devices to compute a best pattern match directly requiring very little power. The UPSIDE computing approach will be benchmarked using a DoD-relevant image processing pipeline, to verify gains in both throughput and power efficiency. The result will be new approach for image processing systems that demonstrate five orders of magnitude improvement, in terms of combined power and performance for the mixed signal implementations, and seven orders of magnitude improvements using the emerging devices. The UPSIDE program will create a new generation of computing structures that will, in turn, enable revolutionary advances in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) processing, particularly for DoD applications of embedded, real-time sensor data analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 51aa06d78c79380de974e78b4642ba95