Released ailia SDK 1.2.6

Takehiko TERADA
axinc-ai
Published in
3 min readMar 20, 2021

Introducing version 1.2.6 of ailia SDK, a cross-platform, GPU-enabled, fast AI inference framework.

Added the ability to omit prototxt when using ONNX.

Added the ability to omit the prototxt when using ONNX. Previously, ONNX was instantiated as follows.

net = ailia.Net(“a.onnx.prototxt”,”a.onnx”)

Since ailia SDK 1.2.6, prototxt can be omitted as follows.

net = ailia.Net(None,”a.onnx”)

For Unity, specify null.

model.OpenFile(null,”a.onnx”)

In the case of C/C++, simply omit ailiaOpenStreamFile.

Enhanced layer support

We have added 5D input support for Softmax, ReduceSum, and Gather, 1D input support for Deconvolution. We also added Metal support for Space2Depth, 3DConvolution, and Split on macOS. This will allow you to run a wider range of models faster.

Add run API to ailia Python API

In order to improve consistency with ONNX Runtime, a new run API has been added. In the case of the conventional ailia predict API, if the input is a Tensor, the output is also a Tensor, and if the input is an Array, the output is also an Array, but with the new run API, the output is always an Array.

PoseEstimator API has been optimized for speed

The pre-processing and post-processing code included in the ailia PoseEstimator API has been optimized for speed. In the RTX2080 environment, LightWeightHumanPoseEstimation runs in about 12ms, enabling real-time skeleton detection.

Support for new AI models

The following models compatible with 1.2.6 have been added to ailia MODELS. ailia SDK now supports more than 100 models, bringing the total to 110 models.

3dmpe posenet : 3D skeletal estimation

Quotation:https://github.com/mks0601/3DMPPE_POSENET_RELEASE

Efficient pose : 2D skeleton estimation

Person reid baseline : Same person determination

Quotation:https://github.com/layumi/Person_reID_baseline_pytorch

Source seperation : separation of sound sources

Yet-Another-Anime-Segmenter : Segmentation of Anime style Images

EAST : Extract text area

Quotation:https://github.com/argman/EAST

Style2paints : Auto Color

Quotation:https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints

Crnn.pytorch : OCR for English

deep-text-recognition-benchmark : English OCR

PointNet.pytorch : Segmentation of point clouds

Quotation:https://github.com/fxia22/pointnet.pytorch

Pixel-Link : Text area extraction

Pytorch-dc-tts : Speech Synthesis Model for English

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