New Pi camera should make for even better PnP Vision.
Originally shared by HotHardware
#RaspberryPi gets a new Pi Eye today! Looks to be based on a very solid #Sony image sensor upping the Pi’s game to smartphone quality levels.
Not just for PnP, computer vision is a critical technology for fabrication shops. The guys at Universal Robots said vision systems are the most requested tool to add to their arms. I’m upgrading several glass cutting CNCs and would love to have CV to check the work. The more we can automate the better.
There is always a question of if the picture quality could be “too good” and actually put too muc burden on the processors involved.
“The BroadCom VideoCore IV 3D graphics processor can play 1080p video at 60 frames per second, and it’ll run OpenGL games. But it isn’t compatible with Vulkan, a new gaming API that will bring visually stunning Linux games to PCs and mobile devices. Raspberry Pi could in the future be tempted to move over to the Vulkan-compatible ARM Mali GPU, but Broadcom has a lot invested in the CPU and GPU for the development board and so will hopefully offer Vulkan support. Upton listed graphics as a top priority when considering improvements.”