Pc imaginative and prescient specialist Arducam has introduced an add-on which turns the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board laptop (SBC) right into a fully-functional “AI digital camera hub” for edge synthetic intelligence work: the PiNSIGHT.
“PiNSIGHT isn’t just a digital camera; it’s your Imaginative and prescient AI Mate, meticulously designed for the Raspberry Pi 5,” Arducam claims of its newest creation. “Unleash the facility of clever imaginative and prescient with our seamlessly built-in digital camera modules and Luxonis OAK-SoM. Discover a world of potentialities as PiNSIGHT transforms your Raspberry Pi right into a visionary powerhouse, seeing past the unusual and redefining what’s potential.”
Designed particularly to be used with the Raspberry Pi 5 — although backwards-compatible with earlier fashions with Raspberry Pi 3 Mannequin B+ and earlier more likely to ship a suboptimal expertise, the corporate warns — the PiNSIGHT is an add-on module connecting to the underside of the Raspberry Pi, in distinction with the extra regular {Hardware} Connected on Prime (HAT) strategy to equipment. On the board is an Intel Movidius Myriad X accelerator, providing 4 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute, within the type of a Luxonis OAK-SoM system-on-module board.
To this, Arducam has added a digital camera module constructed round a Sony IMX708 sensor with a 12.3 megapixel decision, providing 4k30 and 1080p60 video seize modes and delivering focal vary from 15cm (round 5.9″) to infinity. All of that is sandwiched between the Raspberry Pi and an aluminum case which doubles as a heatsink to the maintain the OAK-SoM cool.
“Inspired by the colourful Raspberry Pi neighborhood and the collective need for enhanced AI performance,” Arducam says of its inspiration for the gadget, “PiNSIGHT emerges as our newest mission, drawing inspiration from the shared hope to empower the Raspberry Pi 5. We purpose to unlock untapped potential for AI functions, broadening its horizons past standard academic functions.”
The PiNSIGHT board matches beneath the Raspberry Pi, with a steel case offering passive cooling for the SOM. (đŸ“·: Arducam)
Along with delivering hardware-accelerated video encoding in H.264, H.265, and MJPEG codecs — a characteristic faraway from the Raspberry Pi 5’s system-on-chip in favor of getting the work executed by the brand new and significantly sooner central processor cores — the PiNSIGHT affords OpenVINO integration for entry to a mannequin zoo of ready-to-run pre-trained laptop imaginative and prescient fashions.
Fashions supplied embrace face detection, age and gender recognition, emotion recognition, American Signal Language recognition, highway segmentation, picture super-resolution, textual content detection and recognition, and object classification, Arducam says.
The Arducam PiNSIGHT is now out there to pre-order on the corporate retailer, priced at $69.99 — a $30 low cost from the deliberate promoting value — and with deliveries anticipated to happen on the finish of March this 12 months.
