Real-time analysis of parameters of multiple object detection systems

Analysis of two streaming frameworks: Apache Storm and IBM InfoSphere Streams was performed in solving a multiple object detection task. The analysis focused on two parameters: throughput and 95th percentile of image processing delay. Faces were chosen as the objects to be detected. Profiling was held under CentOS operating systems running on a five node cluster. Face detection was performed using an OpenCV cascade classifier. First architectures and the experiment description were covered. Final suggestions on the applicability of the two systems were made in the concluding section of the article. Apache Storm demonstrated a scalability advantage over IBM InfoSphere Streams in the experiment conducted. It was confirmed that the system based on Apache Storm was able to operate on FullHD video in real-time, achieving throughput of 24 images per second on the hardware used.