When we develop Savant, we keep in mind that pipelines work in accelerated environments backed with specialized hardware. However, recently Nvidia stepped out of providing end-to-end acceleration in certain products. Specifically, Jetson Orin Nano, Nvidia Tesla A100, and Nvidia Tesla H100 don’t include hardware-accelerated video encoder devices (NVENC).
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Savant 0.2.5 introduces a new pipeline syntax structure — Element Group (EG). The purpose of an EG is to specify a group of elements conditionally loaded during the pipeline initialization based on a specified expression. E.g., imagine that your pipeline can use YOLOV8 or PeopleNet for people detection, and you want to specify the environment variable DETECTOR, determining which model will be loaded.
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