Search Results for author: Saeejith Nair

Found 13 papers, 0 papers with code

NutritionVerse-Synth: An Open Access Synthetically Generated 2D Food Scene Dataset for Dietary Intake Estimation

no code implementations11 Dec 2023 Saeejith Nair, Chi-en Amy Tai, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong

As the largest open-source synthetic food dataset, NV-Synth highlights the value of physics-based simulations for enabling scalable and controllable generation of diverse photorealistic meal images to overcome data limitations and drive advancements in automated dietary assessment using computer vision.

DARLEI: Deep Accelerated Reinforcement Learning with Evolutionary Intelligence

no code implementations8 Dec 2023 Saeejith Nair, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Alexander Wong

We present DARLEI, a framework that combines evolutionary algorithms with parallelized reinforcement learning for efficiently training and evolving populations of UNIMAL agents.

Evolutionary Algorithms reinforcement-learning

NutritionVerse-Real: An Open Access Manually Collected 2D Food Scene Dataset for Dietary Intake Estimation

no code implementations20 Nov 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Saeejith Nair, Olivia Markham, Matthew Keller, Yifan Wu, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong

Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues.

Management

NAS-NeRF: Generative Neural Architecture Search for Neural Radiance Fields

no code implementations25 Sep 2023 Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Alexander Wong

Thus, there is a need to dynamically optimize the neural network component of NeRFs to achieve a balance between computational complexity and specific targets for synthesis quality.

Neural Architecture Search Novel View Synthesis +1

NutritionVerse: Empirical Study of Various Dietary Intake Estimation Approaches

no code implementations14 Sep 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Yifan Wu, Olivia Markham, Krish Parmar, Pengcheng Xi, Heather Keller, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wong

Recent work has focused on using computer vision and machine learning to automatically estimate dietary intake from food images, but the lack of comprehensive datasets with diverse viewpoints, modalities and food annotations hinders the accuracy and realism of such methods.

TurboViT: Generating Fast Vision Transformers via Generative Architecture Search

no code implementations22 Aug 2023 Alexander Wong, Saad Abbasi, Saeejith Nair

In this study, we explore the generation of fast vision transformer architecture designs via generative architecture search (GAS) to achieve a strong balance between accuracy and architectural and computational efficiency.

Computational Efficiency

Fast GraspNeXt: A Fast Self-Attention Neural Network Architecture for Multi-task Learning in Computer Vision Tasks for Robotic Grasping on the Edge

no code implementations21 Apr 2023 Alexander Wong, Yifan Wu, Saad Abbasi, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Mohammad Javad Shafiee

As such, the design of highly efficient multi-task deep neural network architectures tailored for computer vision tasks for robotic grasping on the edge is highly desired for widespread adoption in manufacturing environments.

Multi-Task Learning Robotic Grasping

NutritionVerse-Thin: An Optimized Strategy for Enabling Improved Rendering of 3D Thin Food Models

no code implementations12 Apr 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Jason Li, Sriram Kumar, Saeejith Nair, Yuhao Chen, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong

With the growth in capabilities of generative models, there has been growing interest in using photo-realistic renders of common 3D food items to improve downstream tasks such as food printing, nutrition prediction, or management of food wastage.

Management Nutrition

NutritionVerse-3D: A 3D Food Model Dataset for Nutritional Intake Estimation

no code implementations12 Apr 2023 Chi-en Amy Tai, Matthew Keller, Mattie Kerrigan, Yuhao Chen, Saeejith Nair, Pengcheng Xi, Alexander Wong

Unlike existing datasets, a collection of 3D models with nutritional information allow for view synthesis to create an infinite number of 2D images for any given viewpoint/camera angle along with the associated nutritional information.

Nutrition

PCBDet: An Efficient Deep Neural Network Object Detection Architecture for Automatic PCB Component Detection on the Edge

no code implementations23 Jan 2023 Brian Li, Steven Palayew, Francis Li, Saad Abbasi, Saeejith Nair, Alexander Wong

There can be numerous electronic components on a given PCB, making the task of visual inspection to detect defects very time-consuming and prone to error, especially at scale.

Edge-computing object-detection +1

Faster Attention Is What You Need: A Fast Self-Attention Neural Network Backbone Architecture for the Edge via Double-Condensing Attention Condensers

no code implementations15 Aug 2022 Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee, Saad Abbasi, Saeejith Nair, Mahmoud Famouri

With the growing adoption of deep learning for on-device TinyML applications, there has been an ever-increasing demand for efficient neural network backbones optimized for the edge.

Efficient Neural Network

MAPLE-Edge: A Runtime Latency Predictor for Edge Devices

no code implementations27 Apr 2022 Saeejith Nair, Saad Abbasi, Alexander Wong, Mohammad Javad Shafiee

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has enabled automatic discovery of more efficient neural network architectures, especially for mobile and embedded vision applications.

Efficient Neural Network Neural Architecture Search

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