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To verify whether the TMS320C6748 will be suitable for a standalone face recognition project (College project)

Joseph Rathinam
Prodigy 170 points

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Guys, I need help to verify whether the TMS320C6748  will be suitable for a standalone face recognition project (College project).

My budget is maximum of 250$ (India-12500 Rs).

In this project, I am planning to create toy car with a camera,memory,processor,display unit for displaying stored images,button for choosing a stored photo target image and a toy gun. The gun will shoot the person in front of the car if the face of the person matches with the photo which is chosen from the list of photos stored in a memory inside the car. I am also planning for movement of the car towards the target person based on face image match.

This will be a stand-alone face recognition system which will be able to identify and match the photos stored in the memory and do the action based on the face recognition response.

  I am planning to use  TMS320C6748 as a DSP processor for my project and to use the LCDK kit (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/L138/C6748_Development_Kit_%28LCDK%29). Will it be suitable for this and will it be within my budget? And also can you please tell me approximate duration it will take for completing the project?

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    TI__Guru* 84110 points

    Joseph,

    It is impractical for us to give you a yes or no answer to this question. There are three reasons for this:

    1. This product sounds dangerous and might not be something Texas Instruments would want to be directly associated with. The application is not a socially responsible one.

    2. There are many other components of the project that have unknown cost components, including mechanical and physical component costs. The portion remaining for the processing and video capture and motor control cannot be calculated on this forum.

    3. Application requirements cannot be confirmed by simply examining the simple, high-level requirements you have stated.

    The C6748 is a reasonably powerful device that can do many things. You will have to go further in your development to determine the processing requirements and mechanical control requirements before assessing the viability of any particular solution.

    A good development flow is to start with a processing base that will be much more capable than you require, then you can measure the requirements and cut the final product down from there.

    By starting with the C6748 LCDK, you can begin to acquire the algorithms like face recognition that will be required, then make system tradeoffs to adjust to your available processing power.

    Regards,
    RandyP

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    Prodigy 170 points

    Hi Randy, Thanks for your suggestion. This is the first project, I am doing in DSP. I will try to modify the requirements to be more socially responsible one.

  • 0 in reply to RandyP
    Prodigy 170 points

    I am planning to change my project to standalone face and hand gesture recognition based control (example TV remote control) applications.

  • 0 in reply to Joseph Rathinam
    TI__Guru* 84110 points

    Joseph,

    The LCDK is a good platform. The web page you referenced discusses its usefulness for video analytics. It is at a good price, which seems too low for such a useful development platform.

    Regards,
    RandyP