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Raspberry Pi Deep Learning Video Camera from Google
39 points by modeless
https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision___________________________________________________________________
blacksmith_tb - 15 minutes ago
It looks promising, but seems to sneakily require that you have
already soldered on a 40pin header onto your RPi Zero W (I have
gotten lots of practice doing it by now, but that doesn't mean I
really love to...), which doesn't seem to be included in the parts
list.
advisedwang - 33 minutes ago
Crazy how different the approach here is from AWS Deeplens!
Willson50 - 1 hours ago
How is this better than using a typical smartphone?
brittohalloran - 50 minutes ago
It costs $45 (+ Pi Zero W + Camera + SD card = approx. $90 total)
and could be left somewhere analyzing video frames and
communicating results.
DerfNet - 37 minutes ago
There are quite a few budget smartphones out there for under
$90, without even touching the used market. Could the software
run on an Android device?
sargun - 22 minutes ago
Like what?
CamperBob2 - 16 minutes ago
It can be left in a specific location, for one thing.Security and
game cameras are a massively-unsolved problem, for instance. I'd
like to capture footage of bears, coyotes, and other wildlife as
it travels through my back yard, not to mention keeping an eye
out for larger bipedal visitors. But it's almost impossible to
convince the naive motion detection algorithms in my surveillance
cameras not to respond to trees swaying back and forth in the
wind, or to the resulting rapid movement of patches of dappled
sunlight. Or to spiders crawling back and forth in front of the
lens, building a web. Or to moths that seem to be attracted to
the IR illuminator at dusk. Or to any number of other things
that any human would instantly recognize as a false alert, but
that are very difficult for software to reject without frequent
mistakes in sensitivity, specificity or both.It's hard to believe
that anyone with an outdoor security camera hasn't had to deal
with similar hassles. I'm sure there are other applications for a
camera like this, but if I were an investor, I'd be very
interested in the intersection of ML and security in general.
I'm definitely interested as a homeowner.
monkmartinez - 58 minutes ago
Do you know of any ML/Deep learning apps for Android that I can
apply as I would with this? I want to run this on my fire engine
in traffic.
Willson50 - 51 minutes ago
You probably wouldn't want to train models on it, but there's
several examples of using models on phones.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...
monkmartinez - 59 minutes ago
Can we source the parts for one of these now? The pre-order page
states they will be available on Dec 31st. Is there an equivalent?
brittohalloran - 53 minutes ago
The one new looking item is the VisionBonnet (with a low power
Intel Movidius chip [1]). I've been pounding away on a low power
/ low cost NN vision device and now in the last two days we got
Amazon DeepLens and this Google AIY Vision kit. Exciting and
frustrating at the same time.[1]
https://www.movidius.com/solutions/vision-processing-unit
scottlamb - 43 minutes ago
I'll go with exciting. I'm looking at doing some computer
vision (at least background segmentation for motion detection)
as part of a security camera NVR project. I was eyeing the
Hexagon DSP 680 included in the newest Qualcomm SoCs but
couldn't find a cheap SBC that included it. At first glance,
the VisionBonnet seems to do similar things as part of a $45
kit. As a bonus, they say it's supported by TensorFlow. That
will be helpful if I ever actually get into machine learning...