dusty-nv/jetson-inference

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A C++/Python DNN inference library and tutorial guide ('Hello AI World') for deploying deep learning vision models on NVIDIA Jetson devices using TensorRT. It provides primitives for image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, pose estimation, and action recognition, with live camera streaming, WebRTC webapps, and ROS/ROS2 support.

Use cases

• run real-time object detection on a Jetson Nano camera feed
• classify images with pretrained ImageNet models on embedded GPU
• perform semantic segmentation onboard Jetson with TensorRT
• estimate human pose from live video on edge devices
• train custom models with PyTorch and deploy with TensorRT on Jetson
• build a robotics vision pipeline with ROS2 and Jetson
• create a WebRTC webapp streaming inference results from Jetson

When to choose

• you are deploying deep learning inference on NVIDIA Jetson hardware
• you need optimized TensorRT-accelerated vision DNNs in C++ or Python
• you want a guided tutorial covering inference and transfer learning on edge devices
• you need camera streaming, ROS integration, or webapp demos on Jetson

When to avoid

• you are targeting non-NVIDIA or non-Jetson hardware
• you need training-only workflows without inference deployment
• you want a general-purpose cloud or desktop inference framework
• you need LLM or generative AI inference rather than vision primitives

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deep-learning computer-vision image-processing machine-learning llm-inference deep-learning computer-vision embedded-systems robotics machine-learning cpp python embedded jetson tensorrt nvidia object-detection semantic-segmentation pose-estimation image-classification edge-ai ros pytorch tutorial gpu linux docker

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