yolov7 VS edgetpu-yolo

If you want something off-the-shelf, try YoloV7.

The current dictionary is still in a beta state and has only been trained on 80 words (e.g. 'man', 'dog', 'car', 'keyboard', 'book', etc.; see list of words, see dataset). I used the object detection model Yolov7 (paper, all credits to them).

(Please note, this is a re-post of my original question here, I think this subreddit might be more appropriate for asking this question)At work, we use Unity, we have a project that needs object detection and classification. We decided to use this YOLO7 model (for non-technical reasons, It had to be the exact same model as the company does have pre-trained weights for this exact model). However, Unity only supports ONNX so I exported the model as an ONNX model, using the code provided in the repo:

Github Projects offering pretrained weights and train / run scripts. Example

The only project I found is this one that implements Yolov7

I'm wondering if there's an efficient way to visualize the image augmentations from the Yolov7 hyperparameters list here

yolov7: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7#performance

I'm on the fence. It's a very nice device if you can get your models working on it - basically untouched at the price/power point. Drivers for me have been OK. I have an M.2 card connected to a Jetson devkit (makes for a nice embedded test bench) and it runs fine, no worse than the NCS for setup anyway. There were a couple of PCI settings to tweak but I documented the setup here [0]. For common use cases it's a decent option, I think. For custom models you really need to know what you're doing.

The main issue I've had is that the compiler behaviour differs between versions (and it's very difficult to find older releases), so where previously you could run a big model and delegate things to the CPU, now it sometimes won't compile at all. There were also problems where we trained a model in AutoML - using free credits but the real cost would have been over $100 - but edgetpu compiled model lost a lot of performance. The developers have been very helpful when I've contacted them, and generally you can get through to real devs (not generic support) who can look at your model for you. Mostly I think you need to take care when training models for these devices, but quantisation-aware training is not trivial to use in Tensorflow and there are only a few off-the-shelf models which are supported in the various toolkits. Model maker looks promising, but it's also finnicky in my experience [1].

I'm not super worried about hardware availability. They're suffering from the chip shortage like everyone else, so it's not surprising that lead times are long. I was able to buy my device in late 2020 without any trouble.

[0] https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/edgetpu-yolo/blob/main/h...