ADRENALINE: An OpenVX Environment to Optimize Embedded Vision Applications on Many-core Accelerators

The acceleration of Computer Vision algorithms is an important enabler to support the more and more pervasive applications of the embedded vision domain. Heterogeneous systems featuring a clustered many-core accelerator are a very promising target for embedded vision workloads, but the code optimization for these platforms is a challenging task. In this work we introduce ADRENALINE 1, a novel framework for fast prototyping and optimization of OpenVX applications for heterogeneous SoCs with many-core accelerators. ADRENALINE consists of an optimized OpenVX run-time system and a virtual platform, and it is intended to provide support to a wide range of end users. We highlight the benefits of this approach in different optimization contexts.