X-LINUX-AI - object detection using Coral Edge TPU TensorFlow Lite Python runtime

This article explains how to experiment with Coral Edge TPU applications for object detection based on the COCO SSD MobileNet v1 model using TensorFlow Lite Python runtime.

1. Description

The object detection neural network model allows identification and localization of a known object within an image.

Python Coral Edge TPU object detection application

The application enables OpenCV camera streaming (or test data picture) and the Coral Edge TPU TensorFlow Lite interpreter runing the NN inference based on the camera (or test data pictures) inputs.
The user interface is implemented using Python GTK.

The model used with this application is the COCO SSD MobileNet v1 downloaded from the object detection overview and converted for the Coral Edge TPU.

2. Installation

2.1. Install from the OpenSTLinux AI package repository

Warning

The software package is provided AS IS, and by downloading it, you agree to be bound to the terms of the software license agreement (SLA). The detailed content licenses can be found here.

After having configured the AI OpenSTLinux package you can install X-LINUX-AI components for this application:

 apt-get install tflite-cv-apps-edgetpu-object-detection-python

Then restart the demo launcher:

 systemctl restart weston@root

2.2. Source code location

The objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py Python script is available:

• in the Openembedded OpenSTLinux Distribution with X-LINUX-AI Expansion Package:

<Distribution Package installation directory>/layers/meta-st/meta-st-stm32mpu-ai/recipes-samples/tflite-cv-apps-edgetpu/files/object-detection/python/objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py

• on the target:

/usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/tflite-object-detection-edgetpu/python/objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py

• on GitHub:

https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/meta-st-stm32mpu-ai/tree/dunfell/recipes-samples/tflite-cv-apps-edgetpu/files/object-detection/python/objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py

3. How to use the application

3.1. Launching via the demo launcher

3.2. Executing with the command line

The Python script objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py application is located in the userfs partition:

/usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/tflite-object-detection-edgetpu/python/objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py

It accepts the following input parameters:

usage: objdetect_tfl_edgetpu.py [-h] [-i IMAGE] [-v VIDEO_DEVICE] [--frame_width FRAME_WIDTH] [--frame_height FRAME_HEIGHT]           
                                [--framerate FRAMERATE] [-m MODEL_FILE] [-l LABEL_FILE] [--lib_edgetpu {max,throttled}]               
                                [--input_mean INPUT_MEAN] [--input_std INPUT_STD] [--top_k TOP_K]                                     
                                                                                                                                      
optional arguments:                                                                                                                   
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit                                                                               
  -i IMAGE, --image IMAGE                                                                                                             
                        image directory with image to be classified                                                                   
  -v VIDEO_DEVICE, --video_device VIDEO_DEVICE                                                                                        
                        video device (default /dev/video0)                                                                            
  --frame_width FRAME_WIDTH                                                                                                           
                        width of the camera frame (default is 320)                                                                    
  --frame_height FRAME_HEIGHT                                                                                                         
                        height of the camera frame (default is 240)                                                                   
  --framerate FRAMERATE                                                                                                               
                        framerate of the camera (default is 15fps)                                                                    
  -m MODEL_FILE, --model_file MODEL_FILE                                                                                              
                        .tflite model to be executed                                                                                  
  -l LABEL_FILE, --label_file LABEL_FILE                                                                                              
                        name of file containing labels                                                                                
  --lib_edgetpu {max,throttled}                                                                                                       
                        Choose the version of your EdgeTPU runtime                                                                    
  --input_mean INPUT_MEAN                                                                                                             
                        input mean                                                                                                    
  --input_std INPUT_STD                                                                                                               
                        input standard deviation                                                                                      
  --top_k TOP_K         The top_k classes to show 

3.3. Testing with COCO SSD MobileNet V1

The model used for test is the detect_edgetpu.tflite downloaded from the object detection overview and converted for the Coral Edge TPU. If you are interested, please take a look at how this model has been converted.

Information

The different objects the neural network is able to detect are listed in the labels.txt file located in the target: /usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/models/coco_ssd_mobilenet/labels.txt

To ease launching of the application, two shell scripts are available:

• launch object detection based on camera frame inputs

/usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/tflite-object-detection-edgetpu/python/launch_python_objdetect_tfl_edgetpu_coco_ssd_mobilenet.sh

• launch object detection based on the pictures located in /usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/models/mobilenet/testdata directory

 /usr/local/demo-ai/computer-vision/tflite-object-detection-edgetpu/python/launch_python_objdetect_tfl_edgetpu_coco_ssd_mobilenet_testdata.sh

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Note that you need to populate the testdata directory with your own data sets. The pictures are then randomly read from the testdata directory

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