python - Is it possible to perform real-time communication with a Google Compute Engine instance?

Question

I would like to run a program on my laptop (Gazebo simulator) and send a stream of image data to a GCE instance, where it will be run through an object-detection network and sent back to my laptop in near real-time. Is such a set-up possible?

My best idea right now is, for each image:

1. Save the image as a JPEG on my personal machine
2. Stream the JPEG to a Cloud Storage bucket
3. Access the storage bucket from my GCE instance and transfer the file to the instance
4. In my python script, convert the JPEG image to numpy array and run through the object detection network
5. Save the detection results in a text file and transfer to the Cloud Storage bucket
6. Access the storage bucket from my laptop and download the detection results file
7. Convert the detection results file to a numpy array for further processing

This seems like a lot of steps, and I am curious if there are ways to speed it up, such as reducing the number of save and load operations or transporting the image in a better format.

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