Event-Based Vision Pioneer Prophesee Launches a GenX320 Starter Kit for the Raspberry Pi 5
By only caring about changes in brightness at a pixel level, the kit delivers event detection at a rate equivalent to 10,000 FPS.
Event-based vision specialist Prophesee has announced a starter kit that brings its GenX320 sensor platform to the Raspberry Pi 5, promising an event rate equivalent to "~10,000 frames per second" with sub-millisecond latency.
"This launch makes our pioneering approach available to a highly engaged global developer base that's already pushing the boundaries of embedded and edge applications," boasts Prophesee co-founder and chief executive officer Luca Verre of the release announcement. "With the GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 5, we're making event-based vision more open, easy, and accessible than ever before."
The starter kit is built around Prophesee's GenX320 event-based image sensor, which operates differently to a traditional visible-light sensor by capturing and transfering only brightness levels that have changed from moment to moment in the scene. As a result, it can detect motion and other events with greater efficiency than a traditional vision system that transmits whole frames to the host for post-processing — delivering what the company claims is an event rate equivalent to a traditional computer vision camera system running at around 10,000 frames per second.
The sensor, which has a 320×320 native resolution and a claimed >140dB dynamic range, connects to any Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer over its MIPI Camera Serial 2 (CSI-2) interface — adding less than 50mW to the device's overall power draw, the company claims. Software support is provided through the open source OpenEB, at the heart of Prophesee's Metavision software development kit (SDK), and the company has released drivers plus software for data recording, replay, and visualization.
Interested parties can request more information on the Prophesee GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 5 on the company's website; pricing had not been publicly disclosed at the time of writing, but the company's previous partnership with OpenMV for a module based on the same sensor launched at $300.