AI-powered camera IDS NXT malibu

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IDS NXT malibu makes consumer technology, as known from action cameras, available to users in an AI-capable industrial camera. The combined expertise of IDS and Ambarella has created a new class of intelligent industrial cameras. At the same time, they fit seamlessly into the all-in-one AI vision system IDS NXT. This includes the option of training individual neural networks and executing them directly on the camera in self-created or supplied vision apps.

The models are designed as edge devices that carry out AI-based image evaluations themselves and can output the results, for example, as overlays in the live video stream.

For this, the image output is done via compressed video streams (H264 or MJPEG) via RTSP or HTTP, whereby the image quality is optimised by the integrated ISP. This benefits, for example, applications in which people are to be directly supported by AI-based image processing through visual evaluations of their environment.

Thanks to a special chip, image analyses are carried out at high speed (>25fps) and delivered the results as live overlays via RTSP in compressed video streams for end devices. An MJPEG-compressed HTTP stream supports visualisation tasks.

IDS NXT malibu executes neural networks autonomously and improves image quality thanks to the integrated ISP. The embedded system eliminates the need for a PC, reducing energy consumption and system costs.

Artificial intelligence can be used to solve tasks that are difficult or impossible to realise with classic image processing.