Correct hardware for newbie project?

OpenMV Boards
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Hi - thanks for letting me join this group.

I’m exploring options for a simple vision project and considering OpenMV. The idea is to have a indoor camera, looking through a double glazed window, looking outside and detect whether a person (or movement) is present in, lets say 11, vertical strips. Sending the result (zone number or “no motion”) to an existing Arduino project every few seconds. So nothing fancy and a small part of a bigger project. Looking for easiest way to do this.

Before I commit to hardware and time, I’d apricate the community’s thoughts:

  • Is OpenMV a good fit for this type of task? Is anything better?

  • Are there any gotchas or limitations I should be aware of?

  • Will all openMV boards be suitable?

  • Any advice to a complete newbie!

Thanks in advance!

Bryan

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Hi, we can easily do this using YOLO person detectors. See this video:

The YOLO LC algorithm will run on our H7 Plus and RT1062 at about 2 FPS (60+ on the N6 and AE3 which are coming soon).

Anyway, with YOLO_LC, you can detect a person and then transmit their bounding box via UART to an Arduino.

Does this meet your needs?

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Hi. Thank you for your reply.

Yes, this looks very much what I had in mind - thank you. Will study in detail when I can.

Again Thank you.