Install Mediapipe with JetsonNano

• Download JetPack 4.6 and flashed SD card (at least 32GB)

  • NVIDIA JetPack 4.6 : https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetpack#install
  • Rufus : https://rufus.ie/en/

• To set Jetson Nano to 10W (MAXN) performance mode(reference), execute the following from a terminal

$ sudo nvpmodel -m 0
$ sudo jetson_clocks

• Increase swap for more swap ram

$ git clone https://github.com/JetsonHacksNano/installSwapfile.git && cd installSwapfile
$ ./installSwapfile.sh
$ reboot

• Pre-install include Python and pip

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ sudo pip3 install -U pip testresources setuptools==49.6.0

• Install python libraries for Tensorflow

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev hdf5-tools libhdf5-dev zlib1g-dev zip libjpeg8-dev liblapack-dev libblas-dev gfortran

• Install python packages

$ sudo pip3 install -U --no-deps numpy==1.19.4 future==0.18.2 mock==3.0.5 keras_preprocessing==1.1.2 keras_applications==1.0.8 gast==0.4.0 protobuf pybind11 cython pkgconfig
$ sudo env H5PY_SETUP_REQUIRES=0 pip3 install -U h5py==3.1.0
$ pip3 install opencv-python==4.5.2
$ pip3 install opencv-contrib-python==4.5.2

• Download mediapipe-bin and install mediapipe v0.8.5 with cuda 10.2

$ git clone https://github.com/PINTO0309/mediapipe-bin.git && cd mediapipe-bin
$ sudo chmod +x ./v0.8.5/download.sh && ./v0.8.5/download.sh
$ upzip v0.8.5.zip && cd v0.8.5/numpy119x/py36
$ pip3 install mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-cp36m-linux_aarch64.whl

or

$ git clone https://github.com/lovelykite/mediapipe_with_JetsonNano.git && cd mediapipe_with_JetsonNano/mediapipe-bin/v0.8.5/numpy119x/py36
$ pip3 install mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-cp36m-linux_aarch64.whl

• Run sample hand detection

$ git clone -b v0.8.5 https://github.com/Kazuhito00/mediapipe-python-sample && cd mediapipe-python-sample
$ python3 sample_hand.py

or

$ git clone https://github.com/lovelykite/mediapipe_with_JetsonNano.git && cd mediapipe-python-sample
$ python3 sample_hand.py

Solutions for errors during install and launch mediapipe

• Error Msg "No module named 'mediapipe'"

  • Visit https://github.com/jiuqiant/mediapipe_python_aarch64 and follow instructions.

• Install bazel & protobuf

$ git clone https://github.com/jkjung-avt/jetson_nano
$ ./install_bazel-3.7.2.sh
$ ./install_protobuf-3.9.2.sh

• Error Msg "Target //mediapipe/modules/face_detection:face_detection_short_range_cpu failed to build"

  • Update & install gcc-9

  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
  $ sudo apt update
  $ sudo apt install gcc-9 g++-9
  $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-9 100 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-9 --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-9
  

  • Clean the cache before you rerun the build command

  $ bazel clean --expunge
  

  • Run build code again

  sudo python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
  

• Error Msg "An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'rules_cc':"

  • Modify the WORKSPACE under the mediapipe root folder

  # line 37
  strip_prefix = "rules_cc-master",
  ↓
  strip_prefix = "rules_cc-main",
  
  urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/master.zip"],
  ↓
  urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/main.zip"],
  

  • Clean the cache before you rerun the build command

  $ bazel clean --expunge
  

  • Run build code again

  sudo python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
  

Main Package version when the code execution is successful

• ubuntu 18.04
• python v3.6.9
• mediapipe v0.8.5
• cuda v10.2
• gcc v7.4.0
• opencv-python v4.5.2
• opencv-contrib-python v4.5.2

Reference

• https://github.com/google/mediapipe
• https://github.com/feitgemel/Jetson-Nano-Python
• https://github.com/PINTO0309/mediapipe-bin
• https://github.com/jiuqiant/mediapipe_python_aarch64
• https://github.com/jkjung-avt/jetson_nano