Shufflenet-v2 Example

This document describes using the QAI AppBuilder Python API to perform inference with the ShuffleNet-v2 target recognition model using Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor (NPU).

Supported Devices

Device	SoC
Dragon Q6A	QCS6490
Dragon Q8B	SC8280XP

Install QAI AppBuilder

tip

1. Please install QAI AppBuilder according to QAI AppBuilder Installation Guide.

2. Please configure ADSP environment variables according to Create ADSP Environment Variables.

Run Example

Install Dependencies

Device

pip3 install requests tqdm qai-hub py3_wget opencv-python torch torchvision

Run Script

• Navigate to the example directory

  QCS6490

  Device

  cd ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/linux/python

  SC8280XP

  Device

  cd ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/linux/python

• Prepare input image, using the following image as input example

  

  input image

• Execute inference

  Device

  python3 shufflenet_v2/shufflenet_v2.py

  $ python3 shufflenet_v2/shufflenet_v2.py
  Current file directory: /mnt/ssd/qualcomm/701/zzf_fork/ai-engine-direct-helper/samples/linux/python/shufflenet_v2
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> Initializing HtpProvider
  
  /prj/qct/webtech_scratch20/mlg_user_admin/qaisw_source_repo/rel/qairt-2.37.1/point_release/SNPE_SRC/avante-tools/prebuilt/dsp/hexagon-sdk-5.4.0/ipc/fastrpc/rpcmem/src/rpcmem_android.c:38:dummy call to rpcmem_init, rpcmem APIs will be used from libxdsprpc
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
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     115.6ms [WARNING] Time: Read model file to memory. 0.91
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
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     125.6ms [WARNING] Time: contextCreateFromBinary. 10.02
  
     125.7ms [WARNING] Time: UnmapViewOfFile. 0.00
  
     125.9ms [WARNING] Time: model_initialize shufflenet_v2 125.87
  
     199.9ms [WARNING] Time: model_inference shufflenet_v2 2.19
  
  Top 5 predictions for image:
  
  Samoyed 0.8289067745
  wallaby 0.0915796161
  Pomeranian 0.0265247617
  Great Pyrenees 0.0101179369
  hare 0.0050830133
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
       0.0ms [WARNING]  <W> This META does not have Alloc2 Support
  
  /prj/qct/webtech_scratch20/mlg_user_admin/qaisw_source_repo/rel/qairt-2.37.1/point_release/SNPE_SRC/avante-tools/prebuilt/dsp/hexagon-sdk-5.4.0/ipc/fastrpc/rpcmem/src/rpcmem_android.c:42:dummy call to rpcmem_deinit, rpcmem APIs will be used from libxdsprpc
     219.4ms [WARNING] Time: model_destroy shufflenet_v2 17.56

  The printed results show that Samoyed has the highest confidence, which matches the input image content.