CV System Design Basics: Latency, Accuracy, and Cost

Computer Vision Mastery 17 min min read Updated: Mar 03, 2026 Intermediate
CV System Design Basics: Latency, Accuracy, and Cost
Intermediate Topic 6 of 8

CV System Design Basics: Latency, Accuracy, and Cost

Trade-off triangle

Improve accuracy → often increases latency/cost. Define SLAs early.

Key levers

  • Model size
  • Input resolution
  • Hardware (CPU/GPU)
  • Batching

Good habit

Benchmark on target hardware, not your dev machine.

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