Everest

This is the referece implementation of Everest described in:

[SIGMOD 2021] Top-K Deep Video Analytics: A Probabilistic Approach [arxiv]

Authors: Ziliang Lai, Chenxia Han, Chris Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Eric Lo, Ben Kao

Recommended Hardware

• CPU: Intel i9-7900X or above
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX1080Ti or above
• RAM: >= 64GB

Setup

git clone https://github.com/everest-project/everest.git
cd everest
docker pull zllai/everest:1.2

Run a sample query

Query: find top-100 frames with largest number of cars in a 5-hour traffic footage

1. Download the sample files:

./tools/download_sample.sh

2. Run the container:

./tools/docker.sh

3. Run the query:

python3 everest.py @config/traffic_footage.arg