Occasion-based imaginative and prescient specialist Prophesee has introduced a starter package that brings its GenX320 sensor platform to the Raspberry Pi 5, promising an occasion fee equal to “~10,000 frames per second” with sub-millisecond latency.
“This launch makes our pioneering strategy obtainable to a extremely engaged world developer base that is already pushing the boundaries of embedded and edge purposes,” boasts Prophesee co-founder and chief govt officer Luca Verre of the discharge announcement. “With the GenX320 Starter Package for Raspberry Pi 5, we’re making event-based imaginative and prescient extra open, straightforward, and accessible than ever earlier than.”
The starter package is constructed round Prophesee’s GenX320 event-based picture sensor, which operates in a different way to a conventional visible-light sensor by capturing and transfering solely brightness ranges which have modified from second to second within the scene. Consequently, it may detect movement and different occasions with larger effectivity than a conventional imaginative and prescient system that transmits entire frames to the host for post-processing — delivering what the corporate claims is an occasion fee equal to a conventional laptop imaginative and prescient digital camera system working at round 10,000 frames per second.
The sensor, which has a 320×320 native decision and a claimed >140dB dynamic vary, connects to any Raspberry Pi 5 single-board laptop over its MIPI Digicam Serial 2 (CSI-2) interface — including lower than 50mW to the system’s general energy draw, the corporate claims. Software program help is offered by the open supply OpenEB, on the coronary heart of Prophesee’s Metavision software program growth package (SDK), and the corporate has launched drivers plus software program for information recording, replay, and visualization.
events can request extra info on the Prophesee GenX320 Starter Package for Raspberry Pi 5 on the corporate’s web site; pricing had not been publicly disclosed on the time of writing, however the firm’s earlier partnership with OpenMV for a module based mostly on the identical sensor launched at $300.
