DeepLabXception: Optimized for Mobile Deployment

Deep Convolutional Neural Network model for semantic segmentation

DeepLabXception is a semantic segmentation model supporting multiple backbones like ResNet-101 and Xception, with flexible dataset compatibility including COCO, VOC, and Cityscapes.

This model is an implementation of DeepLabXception found here.

This repository provides scripts to run DeepLabXception on Qualcomm® devices. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.

Model Details

  • Model Type: Model_use_case.semantic_segmentation
  • Model Stats:
    • Model checkpoint: COCO_WITH_VOC_LABELS_V1
    • Input resolution: 480x520
    • Number of output classes: 21
    • Number of parameters: 41.26M
    • Model size (float): 158 MB
Model Precision Device Chipset Target Runtime Inference Time (ms) Peak Memory Range (MB) Primary Compute Unit Target Model
DeepLabXception float QCS8275 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) TFLITE 120.912 ms 0 - 171 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float QCS8275 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 112.608 ms 0 - 79 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float QCS8450 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) TFLITE 40.76 ms 0 - 173 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float QCS8450 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 51.982 ms 3 - 84 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float QCS8550 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) TFLITE 24.694 ms 0 - 26 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float QCS8550 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 21.961 ms 3 - 33 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float QCS8550 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) ONNX 21.375 ms 3 - 31 MB NPU DeepLabXception.onnx.zip
DeepLabXception float QCS9075 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) TFLITE 34.969 ms 0 - 171 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float QCS9075 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 30.472 ms 0 - 78 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float SA7255P ADP Qualcomm® SA7255P TFLITE 120.912 ms 0 - 171 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float SA7255P ADP Qualcomm® SA7255P QNN_DLC 112.608 ms 0 - 79 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float SA8255 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) TFLITE 24.902 ms 0 - 27 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float SA8255 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) QNN_DLC 21.82 ms 4 - 33 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float SA8295P ADP Qualcomm® SA8295P TFLITE 45.18 ms 0 - 168 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float SA8295P ADP Qualcomm® SA8295P QNN_DLC 39.926 ms 2 - 79 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float SA8650 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) TFLITE 24.798 ms 0 - 22 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float SA8650 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) QNN_DLC 21.892 ms 3 - 33 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float SA8775P ADP Qualcomm® SA8775P TFLITE 34.969 ms 0 - 171 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float SA8775P ADP Qualcomm® SA8775P QNN_DLC 30.472 ms 0 - 78 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile TFLITE 18.357 ms 0 - 197 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile QNN_DLC 16.028 ms 3 - 110 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile ONNX 15.79 ms 3 - 108 MB NPU DeepLabXception.onnx.zip
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S25 Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile TFLITE 14.414 ms 0 - 174 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S25 Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile QNN_DLC 12.223 ms 0 - 83 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float Samsung Galaxy S25 Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile ONNX 12.394 ms 0 - 80 MB NPU DeepLabXception.onnx.zip
DeepLabXception float Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile TFLITE 11.862 ms 0 - 173 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception float Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile QNN_DLC 9.372 ms 3 - 110 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile ONNX 9.358 ms 3 - 94 MB NPU DeepLabXception.onnx.zip
DeepLabXception float Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite QNN_DLC 22.621 ms 197 - 197 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception float Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite ONNX 21.904 ms 86 - 86 MB NPU DeepLabXception.onnx.zip
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8275 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) TFLITE 20.446 ms 0 - 113 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8275 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 20.71 ms 1 - 140 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8450 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) TFLITE 10.499 ms 0 - 136 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8450 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 15.678 ms 1 - 147 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8550 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) TFLITE 7.588 ms 0 - 18 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS8550 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 8.067 ms 1 - 24 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS9075 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) TFLITE 7.94 ms 0 - 113 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 QCS9075 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 8.24 ms 1 - 140 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 RB3 Gen 2 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS6490 (Proxy) TFLITE 37.667 ms 0 - 119 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 RB3 Gen 2 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS6490 (Proxy) QNN_DLC 55.266 ms 1 - 136 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 RB5 (Proxy) Qualcomm® QCS8250 (Proxy) TFLITE 251.228 ms 8 - 33 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA7255P ADP Qualcomm® SA7255P TFLITE 20.446 ms 0 - 113 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA7255P ADP Qualcomm® SA7255P QNN_DLC 20.71 ms 1 - 140 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8255 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) TFLITE 7.58 ms 0 - 20 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8255 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) QNN_DLC 8.086 ms 1 - 25 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8295P ADP Qualcomm® SA8295P TFLITE 12.846 ms 0 - 118 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8295P ADP Qualcomm® SA8295P QNN_DLC 12.909 ms 1 - 131 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8650 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) TFLITE 7.558 ms 0 - 20 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8650 (Proxy) Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) QNN_DLC 8.057 ms 1 - 28 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8775P ADP Qualcomm® SA8775P TFLITE 7.94 ms 0 - 113 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 SA8775P ADP Qualcomm® SA8775P QNN_DLC 8.24 ms 1 - 140 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile TFLITE 5.463 ms 0 - 139 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile QNN_DLC 5.695 ms 0 - 160 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 Samsung Galaxy S25 Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile TFLITE 4.321 ms 0 - 117 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 Samsung Galaxy S25 Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile QNN_DLC 4.352 ms 1 - 139 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 Snapdragon 7 Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 7 Gen 5 Mobile TFLITE 12.7 ms 0 - 109 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 Snapdragon 7 Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 7 Gen 5 Mobile QNN_DLC 12.661 ms 1 - 124 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile TFLITE 3.406 ms 0 - 120 MB NPU DeepLabXception.tflite
DeepLabXception w8a8 Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile QNN_DLC 3.279 ms 1 - 134 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc
DeepLabXception w8a8 Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite QNN_DLC 8.722 ms 147 - 147 MB NPU DeepLabXception.dlc

Installation

Install the package via pip:

pip install qai-hub-models

Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub to run this model on a cloud-hosted device

Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub with your Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token.

With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud hosted devices.

qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN

Navigate to docs for more information.

Demo off target

The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained weights and runs this model on a sample input.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception.demo

The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model inference, and post processing.

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception.demo

Run model on a cloud-hosted device

In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm® device. This script does the following:

  • Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
  • Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
  • Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception.export

How does this work?

This export script leverages Qualcomm® AI Hub to optimize, validate, and deploy this model on-device. Lets go through each step below in detail:

Step 1: Compile model for on-device deployment

To compile a PyTorch model for on-device deployment, we first trace the model in memory using the jit.trace and then call the submit_compile_job API.

import torch

import qai_hub as hub
from qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception import Model

# Load the model
torch_model = Model.from_pretrained()

# Device
device = hub.Device("Samsung Galaxy S25")

# Trace model
input_shape = torch_model.get_input_spec()
sample_inputs = torch_model.sample_inputs()

pt_model = torch.jit.trace(torch_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in sample_inputs.items()])

# Compile model on a specific device
compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
    model=pt_model,
    device=device,
    input_specs=torch_model.get_input_spec(),
)

# Get target model to run on-device
target_model = compile_job.get_target_model()

Step 2: Performance profiling on cloud-hosted device

After compiling models from step 1. Models can be profiled model on-device using the target_model. Note that this scripts runs the model on a device automatically provisioned in the cloud. Once the job is submitted, you can navigate to a provided job URL to view a variety of on-device performance metrics.

profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
)
        

Step 3: Verify on-device accuracy

To verify the accuracy of the model on-device, you can run on-device inference on sample input data on the same cloud hosted device.

input_data = torch_model.sample_inputs()
inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
    inputs=input_data,
)
    on_device_output = inference_job.download_output_data()

With the output of the model, you can compute like PSNR, relative errors or spot check the output with expected output.

Note: This on-device profiling and inference requires access to Qualcomm® AI Hub. Sign up for access.

Run demo on a cloud-hosted device

You can also run the demo on-device.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception.demo --eval-mode on-device

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.deeplab_xception.demo -- --eval-mode on-device

Deploying compiled model to Android

The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:

  • TensorFlow Lite (.tflite export): This tutorial provides a guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.

  • QNN (.so export ): This sample app provides instructions on how to use the .so shared library in an Android application.

View on Qualcomm® AI Hub

Get more details on DeepLabXception's performance across various devices here. Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub

License

  • The license for the original implementation of DeepLabXception can be found here.
  • The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here

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