Microchip Technology Inc. Demonstration of Low-power Facial Recognition Using the PolarFire SoC

Nav Gupta, FPGA Application Engineer at Microchip Technology Inc., demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Gupta demonstrates harnessing the power and thermal efficiency of the PolarFire SoC to develop low-power inferencing solutions.

This demo showcases the versatility of the SoC with facial detection and recognition using multi-network neural models. It also features the Yolo V5 Nano, MobileNet V2, and Tiny Yolo V4 models running on a single, power-efficient PolarFire SoC, demonstrating the SoC's capability to seamlessly handle diverse and complex tasks.