SAVANT | Ongoing progress and news with explanations

Real-Time Instance Segmentation With YOLOV8M-seg And Savant Framework

Instance segmentation is an important task in the computer vision field. High-quality instance segmentation couldn’t run in real-time on more than new hardware for a long time. However, recent advances in the CV field have made it possible to run instance segmentation in real-time. The YOLOV8 family, invented and published by Ultralitics, broke through the next frontier of computer vision, enabling object segmenting efficiently. It opens doors for a broad range of applications and increases the quality of CV, which is more important.

Savant Explained: Software Video Encoder

When we develop Savant, we keep in mind that pipelines work in accelerated environments backed with specialized hardware. However, recently Nvidia stepped out of providing end-to-end acceleration in certain products. Specifically, Jetson Orin Nano, Nvidia Tesla A100, and Nvidia Tesla H100 don’t include hardware-accelerated video encoder devices (NVENC).

Savant Explained: Pipeline Element Groups

Savant 0.2.5 introduces a new pipeline syntax structure — Element Group (EG). The purpose of an EG is to specify a group of elements conditionally loaded during the pipeline initialization based on a specified expression. E.g., imagine that your pipeline can use YOLOV8 or PeopleNet for people detection, and you want to specify the environment variable DETECTOR, determining which model will be loaded.