Abstract
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been attracting attention for accurate scene parsing including a human pose estimation. However, CNN requires a massive amount of floating-point operations, so it is difficult to realize CNN on low-cost devices. Thus, we propose RegionDrop, an annotation-aware spatially sparse network, which skips computations of unnecessary spatial regions in activations. We present a novel loss that directly uses annotations so that important activation regions are retained. We also developed an efficient sparse GPU kernel to accelerate processing speed of both depthwise and general \(K\times K\) convolutional layers. Our RegionDrop is evaluated by using two pose estimation networks, a modified stacked hourglass network, and an HRNet. RegionDrop using an hourglass network archived 3.2 times faster processing speed compared with a non-sparse network, and 1.8 times faster processing speed than a prior spatially sparse network, with no accuracy degradation. Moreover, the processing speed of RegionDrop using HRNet is increased by a factor of 2.0 with negligible accuracy loss.
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https://github.com/thomasverelst/dynconv is used to measure throughput of FP32 DynConv models and our implementation is used for FP16 DynConv models.
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Sada, Y., Shibata, S., Kobayashi, Y., Takenaka, T. (2022). RegionDrop: Fast Human Pose Estimation Using Annotation-Aware Spatial Sparsity. In: Pimenidis, E., Angelov, P., Jayne, C., Papaleonidas, A., Aydin, M. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2022. ICANN 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13532. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15937-4_63
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