In mobile edge computing, DNN-driven intelligent inference service is highly sensitive to latency.Recently, collaborative inference between user devices and Edge Servers (ESs) based on DNN partition has been used in service acceleration.However, due to the limited computing resources of ESs, there is resource competition between concurrent requests, resulting in the partition tasks cannot be offloaded to ESs in time.Therefore, it is necessary to design an efficient offloading scheme for partitionbased concurrent inference tasks.Existing task offloading schemes based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) can solve complex decision-making problems in high-dimensional state space, but there are problems such as insufficient sample diversity and easily falling into local optimum.Therefore, we propose a collaborative DNN inference task offloading scheme based on distributed Soft Actor-Critic(SAC).It supports SAC Agents to explore samples in parallel and share learning experiences, and improves the randomness of the policy through the maximum entropy mechanism to avoid falling into local optimum, thus achieving efficient offloading of concurrent partition tasks.Experimental results on DNN benchmarks show that compared with the baseline schemes, the average service latency of our scheme is reduced by more than 18.3%, and it has a higher convergence speed and task success rate, which can make ESs achieve load balancing.

In mobile edge computing environment, intelligent inference services driven by DNN are highly sensitive to latency. Recently, collaborative inference between User Devices and Edge Servers (ESs) based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) partition has achieved success in service acceleration. However, most of the existing collaborative acceleration schemes are partitioned for a single DNN inference task, which cannot quickly make partition decisions for a set of concurrent inference tasks, and often sacrifice inference accuracy. In addition, due to the limited resources of ESs, there is resource competition among concurrent requests, which makes the partitioned tasks cannot be offloaded to ESs in time for processing. Therefore, designing an efficient offloading scheme becomes essential. The task offloading schemes based on deep reinforcement learning can solve complex decision-making problems in high-dimensional state space, but they have problems such as insufficient sample diversity and easily falling into local optimum. In this paper, a Collaborative Inference Acceleration Scheme integrating DNN Partitioning and Task Offloading (CIAS-PnO) is proposed. First, while ensuring inference accuracy, the Collaborative DNN Layer Partitioning (CDLP) algorithm is designed with the goal of optimal latency. CDLP can reduce the problem scale of concurrent inference tasks partition by pruning operation and determine the partition decisions in time. Then, the Distributed Soft Actor-Critic (SAC)-based Partition Task Offloading algorithm (DSACO) is designed. DSACO supports SAC Agents to explore samples in parallel and share learning experiences, and uses the automatic entropy adjustment mechanism to improve the exploration efficiency of Agents, so as to avoid falling into local optimum and achieve efficient offloading of partition tasks. Experimental results on DNN benchmarks show that compared with the baseline acceleration schemes, CIAS-PnO achieves more than 19.8% acceleration performance improvement, and has higher convergence performance and task success rate.

Despite the wide usage of mugshot images in forensic applications, they are underutilized in existing automated face recognition systems. In this paper, we propose a novel mugshot-based arbitrary view face recognition method. Our approach reconstructs full 3D faces via cascaded regression in shape space with efficient seamless texture recovery. Unlike existing methods, it makes full use of the frontal and profile views available in mugshot images, and thus generates accurate and realistic 3D faces. Multi-view face images are synthesized from the reconstructed 3D faces to enlarge the gallery so that arbitrary view faces can be better recognized. Evaluation experiments were conducted on BFM and Multi-PIE databases by using state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) based face matchers. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method and show that DL-based face matchers can benefit from mugshot images and the reconstructed 3D faces, especially for recognizing large off-angle faces.