Measurement-based power optimization technique for OpenCV on heterogeneous multicore processor

Abstract

Today's embedded systems often operate computer-vision applications, and are associated with timing and power constraints. Since it is not simple to capture the symmetry between the application and the model, the model-based design approach is generally not applicable to the optimization of computer-vision applications. Thus, in this paper, we propose a measurement-based optimization technique for an open-source computer-vision application library, OpenCV, on top of a heterogeneous multicore processor. The proposed technique consists of two sub-systems: the optimization engine running on a separate host PC, and the measurement library running on the target board. The effectiveness of the proposed optimization technique has been verified in the case study of latency-power co-optimization by using two OpenCV applications-canny edge detection and squeezeNet. It has been shown that the proposed technique not only enables broader design space exploration, but also improves optimality.