[Dprglist] Pre-Order now: Google AIY Vision - Intel Movidius based kit

[Doug Paradis]

Carl,
    Does this unit use the Zero's WiFi to send data to your laptop? What
exactly does "local image processing" mean?

Regards,
Doug P.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Carl Ott <carl.ott.jr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been waiting for an eval kit like this since CES in January, when Dave
> Ackley and I saw a cool demo using the neural net based Movidius VPU -
> albeit that one was packaged as a USB compute stick.  This version runs on
> a bonnet for Raspberry Pi Zero W:
>
> *The VisionBonnet circuit board has an Intel Movidius MA2450 low-power
> vision processing unit, which can run neural network models right on the
> device. You'll get software, too, which has three TensorFlow-based neural
> network models: one to recognize a thousand common objects, another that
> can recognize faces and expressions and a third that can detect people,
> cats and dogs. *
>
> Check this out:
>
> https://www.movidius.com/solutions/vision-processing-unit
> https://uploads.movidius.com/1463156689-2016-04-29_VPU_ProductBrief.pdf
>
>
> Pre-Order from Micro-Center
>
> https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/30/google-diy-ai-camera-kit-raspberry-pi/
> http://www.microcenter.com/site/content/Google_AIY.aspx?ekw=aiy&rd=1
>
>
> Oh yeah.
>
> Google:
>
> https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/vision
>
>
> I suppose, if we wanted to bring the award winning / beer finding
> SmartCamBot back to life with one of these, we'd have to train it to
> recognize bottles versus crayons, but that's a small price to pay for
> real-time / local image processing at this level...
>
> Who else is in?
>
> - Carl
>
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