  The IEEE Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC) is an annual
competition started in 2015 that encourages joint hardware and software
solutions for computer vision systems with low latency and power. Track 1 of
the competition in 2018 focused on the innovation of software solutions with
fixed inference engine and hardware. This decision allows participants to
submit models online and not worry about building and bringing custom hardware
on-site, which attracted a historically large number of submissions. Among the
diverse solutions, the winning solution proposed a quantization-friendly
framework for MobileNets that achieves an accuracy of 72.67% on the holdout
dataset with an average latency of 27ms on a single CPU core of Google Pixel2
phone, which is superior to the best real-time MobileNet models at the time.
