rpi-ncs-toolkit

With this project, we ship the disk image of a fully functional Pi OS running Raspbian Stretch on a Pi3B+, with Movidius and PiCamera related libraries, demos etc. The image can be downloaded here . Please follow these instructions to clone this on to your microSD card.

This is a nice tutorial that steps through the process of installing the Neural Compute Stick (NCS) SDK in API-only mode (note that this is important as the Pi CPU/Memory is underpowered for the full installation). Installation Tutorial . This also has installation instructions for other key libraries such as OpenCV, libusb etc.

Dependencies:

1. Raspberry Pi 3b or 3b+ only
2. Raspbian Stretch OS: You can find the desktop image here Stretch OS and the instructions to flash the SD card here
3. To use a full SDK on a linux machine, you would need Ubuntu 16.04! Follow these instructions to install:

mkdir -p ~/workspace
cd ~/workspace
git clone https://github.com/movidius/ncsdk.git
cd ~/workspace/ncsdk
make install
make examples

Usage:
Get a live feed from the camera for 60 seconds

python camera_preview.py

Record a video from the PiCamera in .h264 format. By default the recording duration is for 2 minutes @30FPS and a resolution of 1080p

python camera.py

Example projects

# Zebrafish detector using a SSD MobileNet Implementation
cd ~/rpi-ncs-tooolkit/ssdmobilenet
python run.py

# Face Detector live demo
# Note that this implementation requires two neural sticks
cd ~/rpi-ncs-toolkit/mtcnn
python live_demo.py

# Age Detector live demo
cd ~/rpi-ncs-tooolkit/gender_age
python live_demo.py