What about putting a computer vision processor on the camera or sensor platform itself?
Dream big and be open minded
Thanks to John Kost for starting and leading the OSSDC Smart Camera MVP (see OSSDC Slack channel #3-mvp-smart-camera), which should bring low cost cameras with very advanced features, in our Open Source SDC platform, similar with MobilEye ADAS vision sensors.
Here is a paragraph from a very nice and interesting article Automotive Ethernet for vision-based ADAS: Loss, cost, and latency, an interview with Marco Jacobs, which emphasizes exactly this idea:
JACOBS: Doing computer vision close to the sensor makes a lot of sense. Indeed, you could do computer vision after you do the Ethernet transportation in a more central location in a vehicle, but you could also do it at the edge, inside the camera module. This has a lot of advantages. One advantage is that you get rid of this lossy compression issue because you would do the computer vision before you do the compression on the raw image. But there’s another advantage that’s more about modularity.
You can read the whole article here.
The image above is from Xilinx The Total Solution for Next-Generation Automotive Applications article, Xilinx are the inventors of commercially viable FPGAs, in 1985.
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