Google Coral

Detects people, vehicles and animals in the camera picture and uses a Coral Edge TPU accelerator for the detection.

What it does

• Detects people, vehicles and animals in the video of your cameras
• Runs the detection on a Coral Edge TPU and switches to the processor when no Edge TPU is available
• Lets you choose which Edge TPU to use when several are connected
• Follows the confidence values set per object type (person, vehicle, animal) in the camera's detection settings
• Downloads its model itself

What you need

• A ViON server running Linux (x64 or ARM64)
• A Coral Edge TPU connected by USB or PCIe, and the Edge TPU system software (libedgetpu) installed on the server. Without them the plugin still works, then on the processor

Settings

• Use Edge TPU (Coral): when on, the detection runs on the Coral Edge TPU if it is available; otherwise the processor is used
• Edge TPU device: which Edge TPU to use when several are connected: "usb", "pci", ":0", ":1" or "usb:0". Leave the field empty to use the first available one
• Active hardware: shows where the models are running
• Download models again: deletes the downloaded models and downloads the current ones
• Reset settings: puts all plugin settings back to their defaults
• Model: set per camera in the "Object detection" group. "Default" follows the recommended model