M. Sc. Iris Fürst-Walter

  • Group: Prof. Becker

  • Engesserstr. 5

    76131 Karlsruhe

Research interests

Artificial intelligence in embedded systems

Artificial intelligence has found its way into many areas to make systems more precise and reliable than previous manually optimized algorithms. One common method is machine learning, which learns to solve predefined tasks on its own based on a large database. But for artificial intelligence to enrich the end application, it must be embedded. A particular challenge here is to compress the networks so that they can be completely computed in the end devices.

Benchmarking for AI Accelerators

When using artificial intelligence in practice, different framework conditions have to be considered that influence the design of an AI system and accelerator. Often, a trade-off is realized between the accuracy of the AI model, hardware resources used, and application requirements. At ITIV, metrics from the different domains are measured to analyze this trade-off and benchmarks are developed to evaluate the overall design. These benchmarks can in turn be used in automated design space exploration to find a suitable hardware/software co-design more quickly.

Assistive Robotics

Many people strive for a long, self-determined life within their own four walls. However, the care crisis means that human care in the home is becoming increasingly rare. As an alternative, KIT is researching assistive robots that help elderly people to cope with everyday life at home. Important aspects for increasing their acceptance are short response times and personalization of the services. For this purpose, ITIV is researching suitable hardware accelerators with low latencies and a high degree of privacy.

 

Supervised student work (selection)

  • MA: "Konzeptioneller Entwurf eines modularen Sensornetzwerks für intelligente Textilanwendungen"
  • MA: "Datenanalyse von Sensorinformationen in intelligenten Textilanwendungen"
  • MA: "Structured Analysis of a Deep Neural Network for Face detection for Implementation on FPGAs"
  • MA: " Design and Analysis of an Intelligent Sensor Network for Motion Tracking"
  • MA: "Design and Analysis of a Human Pose Estimation System from Sparse IMU-Sensing"
  • MA: "Efficient Design of 3D-CNN-Acceleration on FPGA for Action Recognition"
  • BA: "Analysis of concepts for an AI-based system for automated identification and assignment of machine parameters"
  • SA: "IMU-based Action Recognition using Machine Learning"

Publications


2024
Conference Papers
On Metric-Driven Development of Embedded Neuromorphic AI
Krausse, J.; Neher, M.; Fuerst-Walter, I.; Weigelt, C.; Harbaum, T.; Knobloch, K.; Becker, J.
2024. 2024 IEEE 37th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), Dresden, 16th-19th September 2024, 1–6, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/SOCC62300.2024.10737770
HW/SW Co-Design for Integrated AI Systems: Challenges, Use Cases and Steps Ahead
Harbaum, T.; Topko, I.; Serdyuk, A.; Fürst-Walter, I.; Kreß, F.; Becker, J.
2024. 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for IoT (DL4IoT-2024)
2023
Journal Articles
CNNParted: An open source framework for efficient Convolutional Neural Network inference partitioning in embedded systems
Kreß, F.; Sidorenko, V.; Schmidt, P.; Hoefer, J.; Hotfilter, T.; Walter, I.; Harbaum, T.; Becker, J.
2023. Computer Networks, 229, Article no: 109759. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109759
Conference Papers
Design Space Exploration on Efficient and Accurate Human Pose Estimation from Sparse IMU-Sensing
Fürst-Walter, I.; Nappi, A.; Harbaum, T.; Becker, J.
2023. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, Mi, 1st-5th October 2023, 10888 – 10893, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341256
Potential of systematically generated training datasets on the accuracy and generalization of AI-based approaches for the automated identification of machine control signals
Gönnheimer, P.; Ströbel, R.; Roßkopf, A.; Dörflinger, R.; Walter, I.; Becker, J.; Fleischer, J.
2023. 16th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering CIRP ICME ‘22, Italy. Hrsg.: R. Teti, D. D’Addona, 145 – 150, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2023.06.026
Automated Search for Deep Neural Network Inference Partitioning on Embedded FPGA
Kreß, F.; Hoefer, J.; Hotfilter, T.; Walter, I.; El Annabi, E. M.; Harbaum, T.; Becker, J.
2023. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Hrsg.: I. Koprinska. Pt. 1, 557–568, Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-23618-1_37
2022
Conference Papers
Hardware-aware Partitioning of Convolutional Neural Network Inference for Embedded AI Applications
Kreß, F.; Hoefer, J.; Hotfilter, T.; Walter, I.; Sidorenko, V.; Harbaum, T.; Becker, J.
2022. 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 133–140, IEEEXplore. doi:10.1109/DCOSS54816.2022.00034
Embedded Face Recognition for Personalized Services in the Assistive Robotics
Walter, I.; Ney, J.; Hotfilter, T.; Rybalkin, V.; Hoefer, J.; Wehn, N.; Becker, J.
2022. Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases – International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part I. Ed.: M. Kamp, 339–350, Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93736-2_26