Jetson/Tutorials/Full Body Detection

Full-body pedestrian detector
OpenCV comes with a HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients) sample person detector. It runs quite slowly on CPUs including desktop x86 CPUs, but OpenCV includes a CUDA-accelerated version in the OpenCV "gpu" module that runs much faster. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencvlibrary/opencv-unix/2.4.9/opencv-2.4.9.zip unzip opencv-2.4.9.zip (If you don't have the wget or unzip commands, then run "sudo apt-get install wget unzip" to download & install them). cd opencv-2.4.9/samples/gpu g++ hog.cpp -lopencv_core -lopencv_imgproc -lopencv_highgui -lopencv_calib3d -lopencv_contrib -lopencv_features2d -lopencv_flann -lopencv_gpu -lopencv_legacy -lopencv_ml -lopencv_nonfree -lopencv_objdetect -lopencv_photo -lopencv_stitching -lopencv_superres -lopencv_video -lopencv_videostab -o hog (If you don't have the g++ command, then run "sudo apt-get install build-essential" to download & install it). ./hog --video 768x576.avi You can toggle between CPU vs GPU by pressing 'm', where you will see that the GPU is typically 5x faster at HOG than the CPU! You can also run it live if you plug in a USB webcam: ./hog --camera 0 Note: This looks for whole bodies and assumes they are small, so you need to stand atleast 5m away from the camera if you want it to detect you!
 * First, make sure you have installed the CUDA toolkit and the OpenCV development packages on your device, by following the CUDA tutorial and the OpenCV tutorial.
 * Download the OpenCV samples (they come with the OpenCV source code). You can download this by visiting "http://opencv.org/" in a browser and clicking to download "OpenCV for Linux/Mac", or if you want to download this directly from the command-line then run this on the device:
 * Simply build the OpenCV HOG (Hough Of Gradients) sample person detector program.
 * You can run the HOG demo such as on a pre-recorded video of people walking around. The HOG demo displays a graphical output, hence you should plug a HDMI monitor in or use a remote viewer such as X Tunneling or VNC or TeamViewer on your desktop in order to see the output.

As mentioned in the Power draw during computer vision tasks section, the typical power draw for a whole Jetson TK1 board while running this "hog" demo (as well as a graphical desktop environment through HDMI) is around 4.6W for CPU or 4.7W for GPU mode, even though the GPU mode is running about 5x faster!