TY - GEN
T1 - The HPU
AU - Davis, James
AU - Arderiu, Joan
AU - Lin, Henry
AU - Nevins, Zeb
AU - Schuon, Sebastian
AU - Gallo, Orazio
AU - Yang, Ming Hsuan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Computer-mediated, human micro-labor markets have so far been treated as novelty services good for cheaply labeling training data and easy user studies. This paper's primary contribution is conceptual, the claim that these markets can be characterized as Human co-Processing Units (HPU), and represent a first class computational platform. In the same way that Graphics Processing Units (GPU) represent a change in architecture from CPU based computation, HPU based computation is different, and deserves careful characterization and study. We demonstrate the value of this claim by showing that simplistic HPU computation can be more accurate than complex CPU based algorithms on some important computer vision tasks. We also argue that HPU computation can be cheaper than state-of-the-art CPU based computation. Finally we give some examples of characterizing the HPU as an architectural platform.
AB - Computer-mediated, human micro-labor markets have so far been treated as novelty services good for cheaply labeling training data and easy user studies. This paper's primary contribution is conceptual, the claim that these markets can be characterized as Human co-Processing Units (HPU), and represent a first class computational platform. In the same way that Graphics Processing Units (GPU) represent a change in architecture from CPU based computation, HPU based computation is different, and deserves careful characterization and study. We demonstrate the value of this claim by showing that simplistic HPU computation can be more accurate than complex CPU based algorithms on some important computer vision tasks. We also argue that HPU computation can be cheaper than state-of-the-art CPU based computation. Finally we give some examples of characterizing the HPU as an architectural platform.
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U2 - 10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543192
DO - 10.1109/CVPRW.2010.5543192
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956545410
SN - 9781424470297
T3 - 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010
SP - 9
EP - 16
BT - 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Workshops, CVPRW 2010
Y2 - 13 June 2010 through 18 June 2010
ER -