Memory Requirements

The amount of memory required by Media Server depends on many factors, including the type of tasks that you run. The following table provides minimum memory requirements for some analysis tasks.

Unless stated otherwise, these requirements are the same regardless of the number of media sources that you process concurrently and the number of threads used for each task.

Analysis Task Memory Requirement
Face analysis
Face detection 25 MB
Face recognition 65 MB
Face demographics 42 MB
Vehicle analysis
Vehicle make recognition 43 MB
Image classification
Image classification 55 MB
Additional memory required for the pre-trained ImageNet classifier 240 MB
Additional memory required for the pre-trained road scene classifier 50 MB
Object class recognition
Object class recognition 18 MB
Additional memory required for the pre-trained person recognizer 340 MB
Additional memory required for the pre-trained road scene recognizer 338 MB
Optical Character Recognition
OCR 28 MB
Additional memory required for Simplified Chinese text 40 MB
Additional memory required for Traditional Chinese text 53 MB
Additional memory required for Japanese text 31 MB
Additional memory required for Korean text 13 MB
Speech-to-Text
Speech-to-Text 50 MB
Additional memory required for each process action that includes speech-to-text 200 MB
Additional memory required for each language pack (once loaded, a language pack can be used by multiple process actions) 900 MB