Scalable Multimedia Content Analysis on Parallel Platforms Using Python
Title | Scalable Multimedia Content Analysis on Parallel Platforms Using Python |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Gonina, E., Friedland G., Battenberg E., Koanantakool P., Driscoll M., Georganas E., & Keutzer K. |
Published in | ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 2 |
Other Numbers | 3628 |
Abstract | In this new era dominated by consumer-produced media there is a high demand for web-scalable solutions to multimedia content analysis. A compelling approach to making applications scalable is to explicitly map their computation onto parallel platforms. However, developing efficient parallel implementations and fully utilizing the available resources remains a challenge due to the increased code complexity, limited portability and required low-level knowledge of the underlying hardware. In this article, we present PyCASP, a Python-based framework that automatically maps computation onto parallel platforms from Python application code to a variety of parallel platforms. PyCASP is designed using a systematic, pattern-oriented approach to offer a single software development environment for multimedia content analysis applications. Using PyCASP, applications can be prototyped in a couple hundred lines of Python code and automatically scale to modern parallel processors. Applications written with PyCASP are portable to a variety of parallel platforms and efficiently scale from a single desktop Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to an entire cluster with a small change to application code. To illustrate our approach, we present three multimedia content analysis applications that use our framework: a state-of-the-art speaker diarization application, a content-based music recommendation system based on the Million Song Dataset, and a video event detection system for consumer-produced videos. We show that across this wide range of applications, our approach achieves the goal of automatic portability and scalability while at the same time allowing easy prototyping in a high-level language and efficient performance of low-level optimized code. |
Acknowledgment | This research was supported by Microsoft (Award #024263) and Intel (Award #024894) funding and by matching funding by U.C. Discovery (Award #DIG07-10227). Additional support comes from Par Lab affiliates National Instruments, Nokia, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Samsung. It was also partially supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via Department of Interior National Business Center contract number D11PC20066. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. The views and conclusion contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsement, either expressed or implied, of IARPA, DOI/NBC, or the U.S. Government. |
URL | https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/multimedia/scalablemultimedia14.pdf |
Bibliographic Notes | ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), Vol. 10, Issue 2, article 18 |
Abbreviated Authors | E. Gonina, G. Friedland, E. Battenberg, P. Koanantakool, M. Driscoll, E. Georganas, and K. Keutzer |
ICSI Research Group | Speech |
ICSI Publication Type | Article in journal or magazine |