What they found at the time with is that all the computer vision models follow a trend of being bigger and bigger in terms of computational complexity. This increases also the energy consumption in the hardware. They designed a technology to move a step forward to create a new architecture that is optimized by design to run on specific low-power devices, as well as maintaining performances and speed. Focoos have a development platform that streamlines all the development process of computer vision application. But its particularity is not in being a development platform, but in the models that are provided inside of the platform. These are models that are optimized with a technology designed to run on lowpower edge devices. Devices that run in complex computer vision applications on low-power edge devices, environments with limited computational resources. What is the most challenging thing in doing this project? “The first thing that was difficult in this project was to validate the technology with the potential partners and the commercial user,” is Antonio’s prompt answer. “And especially to find a specific market to where to start. Because it is a technology that is agnostic to the computer vision sector, and can be applied to different kind of sectors, so that's the first problem. But now we are focusing specifically on smart city sector, on defense and security and surveillance.” The real users of the platforms are senior users, the ones that are here at the CVPR conference. That can then deploy their own model and finally deploy on the hardware infrastructure. Focoos supports them through every step of the process: from dataset management, to training, monitoring, model comparison, and finally deployment, either on the company’s cloud infrastructure or directly on local devices. Counting the founder and the advisor, Focoos are 13 people - based in Turin, Italy. We are curious to learn one last thing: how is it to work regularly with Barbara Caputo? “Barbara says every time that we are her children, her academic children,” Antonio smiles. “She gave us a lot of things not only from a technical point of view, but also from a business point of view. Because she teaches us how to speak to people, how to sell our product!” 31 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News Focoos AI
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