Setup

Install TensorFlow on Raspberry Pi through pip.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip
sudo apt install libatlas-base-dev        # required for numpy

python3 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade tensorflow

# Test TensorFlow
```bash
python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.reduce_sum(tf.random.normal([1000,1000])))"

Install OpenCV2

sudo apt install libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev
pip install pillow jupyter matplotlib cython
pip install opencv-python

Download MobileNet-SSD v2 weights and config.

Programs

1.py - camera output directly into frame buffer.

2.py - capture image from camera, performan object detection, draw recognized objects with labels into image and display image in an X window.