Hello,
I am exploring real-time object detection, and its replacement/overlay with another shape, on live video streams for an iOS app using Core ML and Vision frameworks. My target is to achieve high-speed, real-time detection without noticeable latency, similar to what’s possible with PageFault handling and Associative Caching in OS, but applied to video processing.
Given that this requires consistent, real-time model inference, I’m curious about how well the Neural Engine or GPU can handle such tasks on A-series chips in iPhones versus M-series chips (specifically M1 Pro and possibly M4) in MacBooks. Here are a few specific points I’d like insight on:
Hardware Suitability: How feasible is it to perform real-time object detection with Core ML on the Neural Engine (i.e., can it maintain low latency)? Would the M-series chips (e.g., M1 Pro or newer) offer a tangible benefit for this type of task compared to the A-series in mobile devices? Which A- and M- chips would be minimum feasible recommendation for such task.
Performance Expectations: For continuous, live video object detection, what would be the expected frame rate or latency using an optimized Core ML model? Has anyone benchmarked such applications, and is the M-series required to achieve smooth, real-time processing?
Differences Across Apple Hardware: How does performance scale between the A-series Neural Engine and M-series GPU and Neural Engine? Is the M-series vastly superior for real-time Core ML tasks like object detection on live video feeds?
If anyone has attempted live object detection on these chips, any insights on real-time performance, limitations, or optimizations would be highly appreciated.
Please refer: Apple APIs
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hi everyone,
I'm working on integrating object recognition from live video feeds into my existing app by following Apple's sample code. My original project captures video and records it successfully. However, after integrating the Vision-based object detection components (VNCoreMLRequest), no detections occur, and the callback for the request is never triggered.
To debug this issue, I’ve added the following functionality:
Set up AVCaptureVideoDataOutput for processing video frames.
Created a VNCoreMLRequest using my Core ML model.
The video recording functionality works as expected, but no object detection happens. I’d like to know:
How to debug this further? Which key debug points or logs could help identify where the issue lies?
Have I missed any key configurations? Below is a diff of the modifications I’ve made to my project for the new feature.
Diff of Changes:
(Attach the diff provided above)
Specific Observations:
The captureOutput method is invoked correctly, but there is no output or error from the Vision request callback.
Print statements in my setup function setForVideoClassify() show that the setup executes without errors.
Questions:
Could this be due to issues with my Core ML model compatibility or configuration?
Is the VNCoreMLRequest setup incorrect, or do I need to ensure specific image formats for processing?
Platform:
Xcode 16.1, iOS 18.1, Swift 5, SwiftUI, iPhone 11,
Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:02:27 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Any guidance or advice is appreciated! Thanks in advance.
In our app we use CoreML. But ever since macOS 15.x was released we started to get a great bunch of crashes like this:
Incident Identifier: 424041c3-884b-4e50-bb5a-429a83c3e1c8
CrashReporter Key: B914246B-1291-4D44-984D-EDF84B52310E
Hardware Model: Mac14,12
Process: <REMOVED> [1509]
Path: /Applications/<REMOVED>
Identifier: com.<REMOVED>
Version: <REMOVED>
Code Type: arm64
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2024-11-13T13:23:06.999Z
Launch Time: 2024-11-13T13:22:19Z
OS Version: Mac OS X 15.1.0 (24B83)
Report Version: 104
Exception Type: SIGABRT
Exception Codes: #0 at 0x189042600
Crashed Thread: 36
Thread 36 Crashed:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x0000000189042600 __pthread_kill + 8
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x0000000188f87908 abort + 124
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x0000000188f86c1c __assert_rtn + 280
3 Metal 0x0000000193fdd870 MTLReportFailure.cold.1 + 44
4 Metal 0x0000000193fb9198 MTLReportFailure + 444
5 MetalPerformanceShadersGraph 0x0000000222f78c80 -[MPSGraphExecutable initWithMPSGraphPackageAtURL:compilationDescriptor:] + 296
6 Espresso 0x00000001a290ae3c E5RT::SharedResourceFactory::GetMPSGraphExecutable(std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > const&, NSDictionary*) + 932
.
.
.
43 CoreML 0x0000000192d263bc -[MLModelAsset modelWithConfiguration:error:] + 120
44 CoreML 0x0000000192da96d0 +[MLModel modelWithContentsOfURL:configuration:error:] + 176
45 <REMOVED> 0x000000010497b758 -[<REMOVED> <REMOVED>] (<REMOVED>)
No similar crashes on macOS 12-14!
MetalPerformanceShadersGraph.log
Any clue what is causing this?
Thanks! :)
I have followed https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/installing-coremltools.html but failed.
Looks like the doc is too outdated.
Attempting to set up ComfyUI-CoreMLSuite on my Mac Studio.
ComfyUI starts but no Core nodes are in the add-node-list.
cloned both ComfyUI-CoreMLSuite and ml-stable-diffusion into custom_nodes and bounced the ComfyUI server.
The startup complains that ml-stable-diffusion has no init.py.
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ... /ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ml-stable-diffusion/init.py'
It appears to be a show stopper.
What to do?