With the rapid development of IoT, autonomous driving, industrial vision and other technologies, the application of visual algorithms has become more and more important, but there are still many problems to be solved. Since RGB cameras are easily affected by sudden changes in light and shade, backlighting and other environments, and require a high frame rate, ordinary RGB cameras will generate huge data during operation, so the requirements for computing platforms are very high. And due to privacy concerns, RGB cameras or infrared cannot be used on many occasions.
In April 2023, SENSING launched the world's leading event camera (abbreviated as EVS Camera), which can effectively solve the needs of cameras with high dynamics, low latency, and privacy protection. As a partner of NVIDIA Elite Jetson, SENSING has carried out in-depth development based on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, and officially released the first EVS Camera development kit based on Jetson Orin Nano.
The kit is mainly to provide AI practitioners, developers, and ecosystem partners in various industries with a development platform for quickly building event cameras. And with the universality and flexibility of Orin Nano's development kit, everyone can easily develop various applications that suit them, and conduct learning and research.
As a new benchmark for entry-level edge AI and robotics, the Jetson Orin Nano development kit has excellent computing power, enabling developers to run any type of modern artificial intelligence model and improve project completion efficiency. The kit also has 4 USB HOST ports, which can support 4 EVS Cameras at the same time, and has the advantages of high performance and small size.
SENSING EVS Camera
SENSING EVS Camera is an EVS event camera jointly developed by SENSING and PROPHESEE. The camera uses the IMX646 EVS sensor realized in collaboration between Sony and PROPHESEE and outputs USB3.0 interface. It is fully compatible with PROPHESEE Metavision® software and can be widely used in industrial inspection, assisted driving and aviation fields. It has the advantages of extremely fast response speed, reducing invalid information, reducing algorithm and power consumption, high dynamic range, etc., and can realize real-time vision in environments with changes in light and dark and fast movement.
SENSING EVS Camera has a delay output of 800us at 1K lux, which can realize high-speed shooting, and can accurately capture high-quality picture information even in ultra-high-speed and transient dynamic scenes. Equipped with EVS sensor realized in collaboration between SONY and PROPHESEE, SENSING EVS camera can achieve a dynamic range greater than 120dB, even under extreme lighting conditions, it can perfectly capture details from extremely dark to extremely bright in the same scene at any speed. And it can also generate clear details under low illumination of 0.08lx.
SENSING EVS Camera has a USB3.0 output to provide a fast and convenient interface, which can be connected to most systems, which is convenient for customers to use. At the same time, it is powered by USB3.0, free of external power supply. It is compatible with PHOPHESEE Metavision software to quickly realize image preview display, with an imaging resolution of 1280x720 px, and supports customers to use Metavision's algorithm library to achieve rapid development.
At present, the EVS Camera launched by SENSING has two types of lenses, M12 and CS mount Lens, which can be selected by customers according to different application Its appearance size is 35x35x35mm, and it weighs 80g. The body is compact and convenient, and it is easier to install.
Application of EVS Camera kit based on Jetson Orin Nano
SENSING ’s launch of the EVS Camera kit based on Jetson Orin Nano will enable finer resolution of detailed motion and solutions in autonomous driving, smart medical monitoring, IoT monitoring and industrial vision applications.
In the application of automatic driving, it can help automatic driving vehicles reduce the complexity of information processing, improve the driving safety of vehicles, and be able to work normally in extremely bright or extremely dark environments; in the application of IoT monitoring, it is possible to comprehensively monitor the internal and external environment of the site, discover and deal with abnormal situations in time, and prevent and reduce the occurrence of safety accidents; in the application of industrial vision, it can monitor the operation status of equipment and the operation status of workers, and timely discover and deal with problems such as equipment failure and illegal operation of workers, also improve production efficiency and safety.
