TY - GEN
T1 - Poster
T2 - 2nd IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2017
AU - Deng, Yang
AU - Ravindran, Arun
AU - Han, Tao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/10/12
Y1 - 2017/10/12
N2 - Autonomous machine vision is a powerful tool to address challenges in multiple domains including national security (for example, video surveillance), health care (for example, patient monitoring), and transportation (for example, autonomous vehicles). Distributed vision, where multiple cameras observe a specific geographic area 4/7, enables smart understanding of events in a physical environment with minimal human intervention. We observe that the cloud paradigm alone does not offer a pathway to real-Time distributed vision processing. With potentially thousands of cameras, hundreds of gigabytes data per second needs to be transferred to the cloud, saturating the bandwidth of the network. More importantly, vision applications are inherently latency-critical with a high demand for real-Time scene analysis (for example, feature extraction and object tracking). To meet latency requirements, computation-including both processing of raw video streams to identify objects, and analytics on this data, needs to be brought to the edge of the network. While object recognition may be done locally at the end node (next to the camera), vision analytics requires access to data generated across different nodes. For example, a subject of interest may need to be tracked across multiple cameras to identify the nature of activities. This creates a need for a low latency distributed data store communicating over a dynamic communication network (most often wireless), to be implemented at the edge. Moreover, the data store must be able to address the limited storage at the end nodes (typically gigabytes). Additionally, privacy and security are prime concerns in the design of such a distributed edge storage. In this paper we present our preliminary work on designing an edge data store for distributed vision analytics. In particular, we highlight the dynamic cross-layer design between the storage and the software defined edge network, as a technique to realize low-latency distributed edge data stores.
AB - Autonomous machine vision is a powerful tool to address challenges in multiple domains including national security (for example, video surveillance), health care (for example, patient monitoring), and transportation (for example, autonomous vehicles). Distributed vision, where multiple cameras observe a specific geographic area 4/7, enables smart understanding of events in a physical environment with minimal human intervention. We observe that the cloud paradigm alone does not offer a pathway to real-Time distributed vision processing. With potentially thousands of cameras, hundreds of gigabytes data per second needs to be transferred to the cloud, saturating the bandwidth of the network. More importantly, vision applications are inherently latency-critical with a high demand for real-Time scene analysis (for example, feature extraction and object tracking). To meet latency requirements, computation-including both processing of raw video streams to identify objects, and analytics on this data, needs to be brought to the edge of the network. While object recognition may be done locally at the end node (next to the camera), vision analytics requires access to data generated across different nodes. For example, a subject of interest may need to be tracked across multiple cameras to identify the nature of activities. This creates a need for a low latency distributed data store communicating over a dynamic communication network (most often wireless), to be implemented at the edge. Moreover, the data store must be able to address the limited storage at the end nodes (typically gigabytes). Additionally, privacy and security are prime concerns in the design of such a distributed edge storage. In this paper we present our preliminary work on designing an edge data store for distributed vision analytics. In particular, we highlight the dynamic cross-layer design between the storage and the software defined edge network, as a technique to realize low-latency distributed edge data stores.
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U2 - 10.1145/3132211.3132463
DO - 10.1145/3132211.3132463
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85039871192
T3 - 2017 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2017
BT - 2017 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 12 October 2017 through 14 October 2017
ER -