In support of OpenNCC API 1.0 developers, we find the difficulties of edge intelligent engineers in product deployment and mass production! We have been thinking about how to make our developers have a set of cross-platform unified programming interfaces in the face of fragmented scenarios, differentiated in-depth learning programming interfaces, and customized hardware reasoning platforms so that developers can pay more attention to their own business scenarios. This is a problem faced by our developer community and also the OpenNCC team. According to the actual situation of our team and the feedback of community developers, we decided to build our frame on the basis of GStreamer and NNStreamer, so that GStreamer to support inference media pipelines, let NNStreamer to support cross-platform inference, the OpenNCC team has more energy to support the product hardware platform and deep learning application layer support.
The block diagram of the OpenNCC Frame system is as follows:
Locally, it can be divided into four layers from bottom to top:
Platform driver layer Provide driver support for AI inference acceleration on different hardware platforms and operating systems
GStreamer plug-in support layer Various inference frameworks and accelerators (such as OpenNCC native SDK) are encapsulated into plug-ins according to NNStreamer, and business supporting modules (such as statistics and tracking) are encapsulated into GStreamer standard plug-ins to provide a plug-in warehouse for flexible business scenarios
Media and inference pipeline layer According to the business strategy, the plug-in is combined into an inference pipeline to output events, AI results, and statistical information for the upper business
Business application and interaction layer Realize business interaction, cloud docking, and local report functions
OpenNCC Native SDK
OpenNCC Native SDK is an upgraded version of OpenNCC API 1.0. It provides cross-platform driver support for OpenNCC USB camera and OpenNCC SoM accelerator, manages and allocates reasoning engine resources, including but not limited to x86, Ubuntu, rk3568, Raspberry Pi, and NVIDIA. OpenNCC Native SDK has been encapsulated as a sub-plug-in of NNStreamer, which provides the underlying resource scheduling interface for the reasoning media pipeline. It is a proprietary development package of OpenNCC Frame supporting OpenNCC hardware products which are based on Intel MA2480 VPU.
OpenNCC Native SDK provides different working modes:
1. USB AI Acceleration Card(As Intel NCS) mode
* In this mode, the Host App obtains the video stream( local file, IPC, webcam, V4L2 Mipi CAM) from the outside, configures the preprocessing module according to the resolution and format of the input file of the reasoning model, sends the picture to the OpenNCC SoM through the OpenNCC Native SDK for reasoning, and returns the reasoning results. The reasoning supports asynchronous and synchronous modes. The reasoning pipeline on OpenNCC SoM is configured through OpenNCC model JSON. * OpenNCC SoM can support up to 6-way reasoning pipeline configuration locally, and 2-way pipeline can run concurrently in real-time. Users can realize multi-level chain or multi-model concurrency of reasoning through intermediate processing of the Host App.
* Multiple accelerator cards are also supported. Users can expand the number of accelerator cards according to their computing power needs, and the SDK will dynamically allocate computing power.
2. UVC Web Camera with AI Acceleration Card(As Intel NCS) mode
* In this mode, OpenNCC is a combination of a USB camera and reasoning accelerate card. The HD and 4K sensors supported by OpenNCC are connected in the front. After completing the ISP on the VPU, it outputs the video stream to the upper computer as a standard UVC camera.
* After the upper computer obtains the video stream, it carries out preprocessing, configures the preprocessing module according to the resolution and format of the input file of the reasoning model, sends the picture to the OpenNCC SoM for reasoning through the OpenNCC Native SDK, and returns the reasoning result. The reasoning supports asynchronous and synchronous modes. The reasoning pipeline on OpenNCC SoM is configured through OpenNCC model JSON.
3. UVC AI Camera with AI Acceleration Card(As Intel NCS) mode
* In this mode, OpenNCC is a combination of a USB camera and reasoning speed card. The HD and 4K sensors supported by OpenNCC are connected in the front. After completing the ISP on the Vpu, it outputs the video stream to the upper computer as a standard UVC camera. * Support configuration, means, directly connects the video stream after ISP on the camera to the local reasoning pipeline of the camera, and output the reasoning results to the Host App. This mode avoids downloading pictures to the reasoning engine, reduces the processing delay and saves bandwidth. The reasoning pipeline is configured through OpenNCC model JSON.
Applications
AI Acceleration Hardware Support
OpenNCC USB powered by Intel Movidius VPU MA2480: Released
Raspberry Pi with OpenNCC SoM: Released
RK3568 with OpenNCC SoM: Released
OpenNCC KMB powered by Intel Movidius KeamBay
OpenNCC Plus powered by NXP i.mx8mini Plus
The following are supported by NNStreamer subplugins and are also supported:
Movidius-X via ncsdk2 subplugin: Released
Movidius-X via OpenVINO subplugin: Released
Edge-TPU via edgetpu subplugin: Released
ONE runtime via nnfw(an old name of ONE) subplugin: Released
ARMNN via armnn subplugin: Released
Verisilicon-Vivante via vivante subplugin: Released
Qualcomm SNPE via snpe subplugin: Released
Exynos NPU: WIP
Get Support
If you need any help, please open an issue on Git Issues, or leave a message on openncc.com. You are welcome to contact us for your suggestions, and model requests.
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