Coral for Object Detection, OpenVINO for Faces

[MercianWhitey]

If I want the above to work, do I have to enable OpenVINO as a detector in my configuration file?

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

You do not need to enable OpenVINO as an object detector in your configuration file if you want to use Coral for object detection and OpenVINO (GPU/CPU) only for face recognition (enrichments). Frigate allows you to use dedicated hardware like Coral for object detection, while using supported GPUs/CPUs for enrichments such as face recognition and license plate recognition. These features are independent, and you can configure them separately(1)(2).

For your use case:

• Configure Coral as your object detector.
• Enable face recognition (and set model_size to "large" if you want to use GPU acceleration).
• If your system supports GPU acceleration (OpenVINO for Intel, ROCm for AMD, TensorRT for Nvidia), Frigate will automatically use it for enrichments if you are running the appropriate Docker image(1)(2).

You do not need to list OpenVINO under detectors unless you want to use it for object detection. For face recognition enrichment, just enable face recognition and select the appropriate model size(1)(2).

📚 Sources:

1. Enrichments
2. Face Recognition

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