Leverage ESP32-S3 AI capabilities with the ESP-DL library

ESP32-S3 is the first Espressif wireless processor with AI instructions, and ESP-DL library for ESP-IDF allows you to easily leverage those AI instructions using boards such as the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1.

The ESP-DL library provides APIs for Neural Network (NN) Inference, Image Processing, Math Operations, and Deep Learning Models that make full use of ESP32-S3’s AI instructions with a 16-bit face recognition model running 6.25 faster, while the 8-bit model is 2.5 times faster than without acceleration.

ESP32-S3 AI ESP-DL library

The ESP-DL library can be used as a project component. For instance, it can be used as a submodule of ESP-WHO computer vision framework, by simply copying it to the esp-who/components/ directory.

The Model Zoo contains several pre-trained models for (human) face detection & recognition, and cat face detection, with more being developed including color detection and hand-pose detection.

Face detection esp32-s3 vs esp32-s2 vs esp32
ESP-DL face detection demo on ESP32, ESP32-S3 and ESP32-S3

Espressif Systems also provides tools to use your own models, and a convention tool allowing you to use models developed for TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNetm, and others.

There may be even higher performance in the future, as besides acceleration with SIMD instructions, ESP-DL will be further developed with autoload/preload as well as DMA engine support to manipulated the data faster.

You’ll find the code, samples, and documentation on Github. The tricky part will be to get the ESP32-S3, as right now you’d need to request a sample directly from Espressif Systems. ESP32-S3 modules and development boards are slated to become available before the end of the year.

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