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An Eye on Intelligence - Winners' Announcement

2025-01-13T18:17:30Z

What is an Eye on Intelligence? More developers today are designing embedded vision systems into their projects. As such, embedded vision is having a transformative effect on skill sets, technical innovation, and product development. AMD adaptive SoC...(read more)

Sign Language Interpreter Final Blog: Putting everything together

2024-12-10T14:05:42Z

IntroductionTwo months backs I took part in the Eye on Intelligence Challenge. My project is to create a sign language interpreter which will use ML on the Arty Z7 board to do real time classification on hand signs and classify those into characters....(read more)

Sign Language Interpreter Blog 5: Running CNN image classification on Arty Z7 using PYNQ

2024-12-08T07:08:48Z

IntroductionIn this blog, I will try to run ML on Pynq and do some image classification using neural network. Machine learning on PYNQ involves leveraging the FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) capabilities of PYNQ boards to accelerate machine...(read more)

Person Detection with yolo #7 Integrated DPU with DNNDK - finally

2024-12-06T02:55:33Z

#7 Integrated DPU with DNNDK - finally Table of Contents 1 Diversity software toolsets 2 Getting start with Vivado 3 Getting start to Vitis 5 Three Pathway to Eye Intelligence in Arty Z7 1 DNNDK and DPU Deep learning Process...(read more)

Sign Language Interpreter Blog 4: Using PYNQ overlays with HDMI and USB webcam on Arty Z7

2024-11-23T13:00:41Z

IntroductionIn this blog, we will use PYNQ overlays to connect the video stream from a USB webcam to a TFT screen, and then overlay text onto the displayed video. What is PYNQ Overlay?Overlays are programmable FPGA designs that extend applications fr...(read more)

Sign Language Interpreter Blog 3: Running PYNQ on Arty Z7

2024-11-23T12:56:29Z

IntroductionIn this blog, we will install PYNQ in an SD card and boot the board from that. The goal is to be able to use python jupyter notebook on it. What is PYNQ?PYNQ is an open-source project from AMD that makes it easier to use Adaptive Computin...(read more)

Sign Language Interpreter Blog 2: Hands on with Arty Z7

2024-11-22T14:14:09Z

IntroductionIn this blog, I will bring up the Arty Z7 board and load some custom HDL design onto it using the Vivado Design suite. What is Vivado?Vivado Design Suite is a software suite developed by AMD for synthesis and analysis of hardware descript...(read more)

Person Detection with yolo #6 Person Detection with OpenCV--Final?Not Yet!

2024-11-20T10:13:30Z

#6 Person Detection with OpenCV--Final?Not Yet! Table of Contents 1 Summary of the work 2 Person Detection with OpenCV 3 Person Detection with DPU in pynq 4 Not Yet! 1 Summary of the work Throughout the building period, the challenges i...(read more)

Eye On Intelligence Challenge - a Birds-Eye view - Not Quite Final Blog

2024-11-19T15:54:42Z

I was in Rhode Island setting up equipment for a field experiment last week for work so I'm a little late with this project. I'll summarize my progress, however, the project is not quite complete. After several hours of trying to instal...(read more)

Blog #6: Third Eye for Blind - Final Blog

2024-11-19T08:09:15Z

Introduction About 2.2 Billion people globally don’t have the capability to see. Due to blindness or shortsight, they cannot perceive their environment and navigate like normal humans which results in reduced mobility. In my country, I see most...(read more)

Final Blog: CNN HW Accelerator for Handwriting Recognition

2024-11-19T05:09:47Z

Previous Blogs: Blog #1: CNN HW Accelerator for Handwriting Recognition - HDMI and USB Camera Bring-Up Blog #2: CNN HW Accelerator for Handwriting Recognition - Introduction to CNN for Handwritten Digit Recognition Blog ...(read more)

Smarter Runner - Biomechanics Assistant

2024-11-19T04:45:25Z

Project Overview I like running, but I also get injuries from time to time. I attribute them to my bad running form. Unfortunately, I'm not alone. Many runners have the same challenge. Key Decisions 1. Use CPU instead of FPGA for video process...(read more)

Finale Blog - Monocular Visual SLAM on Zynq 7000 APSoC

2024-11-18T23:53:48Z

This blog is the finale blog of the series of blogs listed below Blog #1 Introduction Blog #2 Image Processing on Zynq 7000 APSoC Blog #3 PMOD ALS Blog #4 SLAM Blog #5 CNN's on Zynq 7000 using Tensil.ai In our first installment, we laid the groundwor...(read more)

Final - FruitVision Scale

2024-11-18T22:56:00Z

Introduction: A Smart Solution for Fruit Identification and Weighing For my entry in this challenge, I came up with a project to make the self-service weighing of fruits and vegetables in supermarkets easier. Right now, in many stores, customers have...(read more)

Z7_Color_AID: Color Detection Final Summary and Future Work

2024-11-18T20:23:03Z

Table of Contents Color Detection and Contour Drawing Flowchart Colormap for HSV Z7_Color_AID Phase 1 Project Demonstration Future Work of Z7_Color_AID Project References Color Detection and Contour Drawing Flowchart As my previous blog mentioned...(read more)