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Motivation
Hi, thanks for your great work! I've run insightface on my Ascend NPU Device and then want to make this contribution for other users using the same hardware. Would love to get feedback :)
ONNX Runtime has nativaly supported Ascend NPU since v1.12.1, more information in ONNX Runtime-CANN-ExecutionProvider
Change
This PR supports Ascend NPU as a new backend for insightface.
Test
Person Detection Test with 2k images
cpu: 19.6 FPS
npu: 69.7 FPS
Web-demo Test
sim: 0.6081, message: They ARE the same person
sim: 0.0444, message: They are NOT the same person