Patrick Wang

Sehoon Kim, Amir Gholami, Zhewei Yao et al.

End-to-end neural network models achieve improved performance on various automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, these models perform poorly on edge hardware due to large memory and computation requirements. While quantizing model weights and/or activations to low-precision can be a promising solution, previous research on quantizing ASR models is limited. In particular, the previous approaches use floating-point arithmetic during inference and thus they cannot fully exploit efficient integer processing units. Moreover, they require training and/or validation data during quantization, which may not be available due to security or privacy concerns. To address these limitations, we propose an integer-only, zero-shot quantization scheme for ASR models. In particular, we generate synthetic data whose runtime statistics resemble the real data, and we use it to calibrate models during quantization. We apply our method to quantize QuartzNet, Jasper, and Conformer and show negligible WER degradation as compared to the full-precision baseline models, even without using any data. Moreover, we achieve up to 2.35x speedup on a T4 GPU and 4x compression rate, with a modest WER degradation of <1% with INT8 quantization.

Patrick Wang, Kenneth Morton, Peter Torrione et al.

An object detector performs suboptimally when applied to image data taken from a viewpoint different from the one with which it was trained. In this paper, we present a viewpoint adaptation algorithm that allows a trained single-view object detector to be adapted to a new, distinct viewpoint. We first illustrate how a feature space transformation can be inferred from a known homography between the source and target viewpoints. Second, we show that a variety of trained classifiers can be modified to behave as if that transformation were applied to each testing instance. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on a person detection task using images from the PETS 2007 and CAVIAR datasets, as well as from a new synthetic multi-view person detection dataset. It yields substantial performance improvements when adapting single-view person detectors to new viewpoints, and simultaneously reduces computational complexity. This work has the potential to improve detection performance for cameras viewing objects from arbitrary viewpoints, while simplifying data collection and feature extraction.