Raspberry Pi gets AI vision superpowers

Raspberry Pi is getting into the synthetic intelligence (AI) enviornment, first with a Hailo 8L AI board coupled to a M.2 HAT+, and now with a model new digicam designed for AI functions and neural community fashions.

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The digicam can be utilized for quite a lot of AI workloads, from picture classifications and object detection to extra difficult AI assignments similar to human pose detection and semantic picture segmentation. 

Raspberry Pi AI digicam tech specs

• Sensor: 12.3 MP Sony IMX500 Clever Imaginative and prescient Sensor full with built-in neural community accelerator
• Framerates:
  2×2 binned: 2028×1520 10-bit 30fps
  Full decision: 4056×3040 10-bit 10fps
• Sensor dimension: 7.857 mm
• Pixel dimension: 1.55 × 1.55 μm
• Subject of view: 78.3 (±3) levels with handbook/mechanical adjustable focus
• Aperture: F1.79
• Dimension: 25 × 24 × 11.9 mm module dimensions
• On-board processor: Built-in RP2040 for neural community firmware administration
• Compatibility: Works with all Raspberry Pi fashions, utilizing our commonplace digicam connector cable

Whereas I’ve used the usual Raspberry Pi digicam for AI workloads, getting a digicam that is been designed from the bottom up for the duty legitimizes the Raspberry Pi as a real AI workhorse. The digicam is constructed round Sony’s IMX500 imaginative and prescient sensor, the world’s first Clever Imaginative and prescient Sensor to characteristic edge processing. The IMX500’s stacked sensor construction combines a picture sensor with digital sign processing together with a devoted on-chip SRAM that enables for on-board high-speed edge AI processing.

Not solely is the chip a low-power, low-latency resolution, nevertheless it additionally helps to enhance privateness as a result of the picture knowledge does not have to go away the chip, solely the metadata.

The digicam matches any Raspberry Pi, making use of the digicam connector. There is a little bit of an set up course of, nevertheless it’s not too painful by Raspberry Pi requirements.

The AI digicam is priced at $70, and proper now, as is common with newly-released Raspberry Pi {hardware}, availability is patchy. If you would like one, my recommendation is to maintain watching the same old suspects — Sparkfun, Vilros, PiShop.us, and CanaKit.