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Published inNov 2023
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Gian Marco Iodice
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Gian Marco Iodice

Gian Marco Iodice is team and tech lead in the Machine Learning Group at Arm, who co-created the Arm Compute Library in 2017. The Arm Compute Library is currently the most performant library for ML on Arm, and it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide – from servers to smartphones. Gian Marco holds an MSc degree, with honors, in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and has several years of experience developing ML and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. Now, he's leading the ML performance optimization on Arm Mali GPUs. In 2020, Gian Marco cofounded the TinyML UK meetup group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate, and inspire the next generation of ML developers on tiny and power-efficient devices.
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Building the dataset to classify desk objects

In this recipe, we will build the dataset by collecting images of the mug and book, with the OV7670 camera and the Arduino Nano. The image files will then be uploaded to Google Drive to train the ML model in the next recipe.

Getting ready

Training a deep neural network from scratch for image classification commonly requires a dataset with 1,000 images per class. As you might guess, collecting such a vast number of pictures would be time-consuming. To overcome this challenge, we will employ the technique we applied in the previous Chapter 7, Detecting Objects with Edge Impulse Using FOMO on the Raspberry Pi Pico: transfer learning.

This ML technique, which we will exploit in the following recipe, allows us to build a dataset with just 20 samples per class.

How to do it…

Before implementing the Python script, remove the test pattern mode (Camera.testPattern()) in the Arduino sketch so that you can acquire live...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837637362

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Gian Marco Iodice

Gian Marco Iodice is team and tech lead in the Machine Learning Group at Arm, who co-created the Arm Compute Library in 2017. The Arm Compute Library is currently the most performant library for ML on Arm, and it's deployed on billions of devices worldwide – from servers to smartphones. Gian Marco holds an MSc degree, with honors, in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and has several years of experience developing ML and computer vision algorithms on edge devices. Now, he's leading the ML performance optimization on Arm Mali GPUs. In 2020, Gian Marco cofounded the TinyML UK meetup group to encourage knowledge-sharing, educate, and inspire the next generation of ML developers on tiny and power-efficient devices.
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