This short article discusses the MJPEG USB camera simulation in Linux with FFmpeg and a V4L2 loopback device. USB and CSI cameras, alongside GigE Vision cameras, are the main visual data source in robotics and other industrial applications.
They have significant advantages over RTSP cameras:
Everybody loves benchmarking, and we love it, too! We always claim that Savant is fast and highly optimized for Nvidia hardware because it uses TensorRT inference under the hood. However, without numbers and benchmarks, the declaration may sound unfounded. Thus, we decided to publish a benchmark demonstrating the inference performance for three technologies:
The 1st is what most developers usually use as a de-facto approach. The 2nd is used rarely because it requires a custom build, and developers often underestimate hardware-accelerated video decoding/encoding as the critical enabling factor for CUDA-based processing.
Continue reading Serving YOLO V8: Savant is More Than Three Times Faster Than PyTorch
Savant 0.2.7 was released on February 7, 2024. The release includes several bug fixes, four new demos, and other enhancements, including documentation and benchmarking.
Savant crossed the 400-star band on GitHub, and Discord is now the place must-have-to-join. The work on the release took three months. In the following sections, we will cover essential parts of the release in detail.
IMPORTANT: Savant 0.2.7 is the last feature release in the 0.2.X branch. The following releases in the 0.2.X branch will be maintenance and bugfix releases. The feature development switches to the 0.3.X branch based on DeepStream 6.4 and WILL NOT support the Jetson Xavier family because Nvidia does not support them with DS 6.4.
GitHub: https://github.com/insight-platform/Savant/releases/tag/v0.2.7
Continue reading 🚀 0.2.7 Release Notes