Filling the Pareto-Optimal Front for Affordance Segmentation on Embedded Devices Using RGB-D Cameras

Abstract:While depth sensors have the potential to complement RGB data for affordance segmentation in wearable robots, their usage seems to remain underexplored. The paper proposes two approaches: a reformulated version of hardware-aware neural architecture search, endowed with a newly designed search space to integrate depth (D) information into small-sized deep networks, and a dedicated fine-tuning approach, including a preprocessing layer to merge depth information with RGB data and make it compatible with conventional architectures. In both cases, those methods aim to generate solutions that benefit from modern (portable) hardware accelerators and overcome existing tiny-like approaches, which often fail to tackle critical scenarios due to the severe constraints set by the supporting hardware. Extensive experiments on a pair of real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method as compared with existing solutions. The approach presented in the paper generates, in most cases, solutions that identify the Pareto optimal front to balance generalization performance and hardware requirements. The paper also describes the supporting prototype, including a Jetson Nano board and a RealSense RGB-D camera. When considering the energy profile of the device, the overall system can attain real-time performances within an energy budget that is compatible with standard batteries, such as those used in smartphones.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2607.28293 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2607.28293v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.28293 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 21, pp. 44492-44501, 2025

https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2025.3574506 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources

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