ICP image classification

This is an ICP smart contract that accepts an image from the user and runs image classification inference. The smart contract consists of two canisters:

• the backend canister embeds the the Tract ONNX inference engine with the MobileNet v2-7 model. It provides classify() and classify_query() endpoints for the frontend code to call. The former endpoint is used for replicated execution (running on all nodes) whereas the latter runs only on a single node.
• the frontend canister contains the Web assets such as HTML, JS, CSS that are served to the browser.

This example uses Wasm SIMD instructions that are available in dfx version 0.20.2-beta.0 or newer.

Prerequisites

• Install the IC SDK. For local testing, dfx >= 0.22.0 is required.
• Clone the example dapp project: git clone https://github.com/dfinity/examples
• Install WASI SDK 21:
  • Install wasi-skd-21.0 from https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/tag/wasi-sdk-21
  • Export CC_wasm32_wasi in your shell such that it points to WASI clang and sysroot. Example: export CC_wasm32_wasi="/path/to/wasi-sdk-21.0/bin/clang --sysroot=/path/to/wasi-sdk-21.0/share/wasi-sysroot
• Install wasi2ic: Follow the steps in https://github.com/wasm-forge/wasi2ic and make sure that wasi2ic binary is in your $PATH.
• Download MobileNet v2-7 to src/backend/assets/mobilenetv2-7.onnx: ./downdload_model.sh
• Install wasm-opt: cargo install wasm-opt

Build the application

dfx start --background
dfx deploy

If the deployment is successful, the it will show the frontend URL. Open that URL in browser to interact with the smart contract.