Hello TensorFlow Team. As we know that there is new framework called MediaPipe that launched in Google I/O 2023. My question is, what is the different between both of them
Hi @arifaizin, As per my knowledge the Media pipe provides a set of pre-built components for ML tasks, making it easier to create applications on computer vision, text and audio. whereas TFLite is specifically designed for running machine learning models on edge devices with resource constraints, such as mobile devices and embedded systems.
MediaPipe Solutions are available across multiple platforms(Android,Web,Python,iOS) and you can able to customize models for some solutions only(Object detection, Image classification, Gesture recognition, etc). Whereas by using TFLite you can convert any of your custom model to tflite file and use this lite model on different devices((Android,Web,Python,iOS, micro controllers, coral edge devices, etc)
Also TFlite also provides a facility to quantize your model on the quantization of your choice. but in mediapipe we cannot manually quantize the model they only provide the quantization model.
These are the few differences. Thank You.
Thanks for the answer @Kiran_Sai_Ramineni , then my question is "If we want to implement machine learning (eg: image classification) in Android, because both of them have similar API, what is the recommendation framework to use, is it TensorFlow Lite or MediaPipe? Thanks in advance
Hi @arifaizin, As i mentioned earlier TensorFlow Lite is more suitable for resource constraints like memory capacity for storing the model, integer operations are only supported then it is preferred to use TFLite. If there are no such constraints you can use any of those. Thank You.