Raspberry Pi and Movidius NCS Face Recognition @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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Cool new tutorial by Adrian Rosebrock at PyImageSearch.

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Movidius NCS to speedup face detection and face recognition on the Raspberry Pi by over 243%!

If you’ve ever tried to perform deep learning-based face recognition on a Raspberry Pi, you may have noticed significant lag.

Is there a problem with the face detection or face recognition models themselves?

No, absolutely not.

The problem is that your Raspberry Pi CPU simply can’t process the frames quickly enough. You need more computational horsepower.

Read more.


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