Course Schedule

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Monday, January 6, 2020

Slides (pdf)
Paper presentation preferences due by 10pm on Wednesday, 1/8

Lecture 2: Edge-Cloud Split

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

T. Chen et al., Glimpse: Continuous, Real-Time Object Recognition on Mobile Devices, SenSys 2015
Presenter: Murali Ramanujam

Lecture 3: Server-side Scheduling (Part 1)

Monday, January 13, 2020

H. Zhang et al., Live video analytics at scale with approximation and delay-tolerance, NSDI 2017
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 4: Server-side Scheduling (Part 2)

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

J. Jiang et al., Chameleon: Scalable Adaptation of Video Analytics, SIGCOMM 2018
Presenters: TBD

No Class – MLK Day

Monday, January 20, 2020

Lecture 5: Retrospective Queries

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

D. Kang et al., NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale, VLDB 2017
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 6: Edge Support (Part 1)

Monday, January 27, 2020

K. Hsieh et al., Focus: querying large video datasets with low latency and low cost, OSDI 2018
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 7: Edge Support (Part 2)

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

C. Canel et al., Scaling Video Analytics on Constrained Edge Nodes, arXiv 2019
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 8: Efficient Inference

Monday, February 3, 2020

Y. Lee et al., Pretzel: opening the black box of machine learning prediction serving systems, OSDI 2018
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 9: GPU Scheduling

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

H. Shen et al., Nexus: a GPU cluster engine for accelerating DNN-based video analysis, SOSP 2019
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 10: Storing Video for Efficient Querying

Monday, February 10, 2020

T. Xu et al., VStore: A Data Store for Analytics on Large Videos, EuroSys 2019
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 11: Reducto (Edge-based frame filtering)

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Presenters: Arthi Padmanabhan

No Class – Holiday

Monday, February 17, 2020

Presenters: TBD

Lecture 12: Querying Video

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

D. Kang et al., BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics, VLDB 2020
Presenters: TBD

No Lecture – Project Meetings

Monday, February 24, 2020

No Class – NSDI

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Lecture 13: Multi-Camera Settings

Monday, March 2, 2020

X. Liu et al., Caesar: cross-camera complex activity recognition, SenSys 2019
S. Jain et al., ReXCam: Resource-Efficient Cross-Camera Video Analytics at Scale, arXiv 2019
Presenters: TBD

Lecture 14: Latest Topics

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

J. Emmons et al., Cracking open the DNN black-box: Video Analytics with DNNs across the Camera-Cloud Boundary, HotEdgeVideo 2019
Y. Wang et al., Bridging the Edge-Cloud Barrier for Real-time Advanced Vision Analytics, HotCloud 2019
J. Jiang et al., Networked Cameras Are the New Big Data Clusters, HotEdgeVideo 2019 General discussion for this paper (no presentation)

Lecture 15: Final Project Idea Presentations

Monday, March 9, 2020

Lecture 16: Privid (Video Privacy)

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Presenters: Neil Agarwal