Pruning filters for efficient convolutional neural networks for image recognition in vehicles

摘要

Systems and methods for surveillance are described, including an image capture device configured to mounted to an autonomous vehicle, the image capture device including an image sensor. A storage device is included in communication with the processing system, the storage device including a pruned convolutional neural network (CNN) being trained to recognize obstacles in a road according to images captured by the image sensor by training a CNN with a dataset and removing filters from layers of the CNN that are below a significance threshold for image recognition to produce the pruned CNN. A processing device is configured to recognize the obstacles by analyzing the images captured by the image sensor with the pruned CNN and to predict movement of the obstacles such that the autonomous vehicle automatically and proactively avoids the obstacle according to the recognized obstacle and predicted movement.