stereolabs/zed-sdk

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The ZED SDK is a cross-platform spatial perception library for Stereolabs ZED stereo cameras, providing depth sensing, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, object detection, and human pose estimation. This repository hosts tutorials and code samples demonstrating the SDK API across multiple languages.

Use cases

• build a robot that navigates using stereo depth and SLAM
• estimate depth maps and point clouds from a stereo camera
• reconstruct 3D meshes of indoor spaces in real time
• detect and track people with human pose estimation
• run object detection fused with depth on a Jetson device
• stream and record stereo video with H264/H265 encoding

When to choose

• you are using a Stereolabs ZED camera and need depth, mapping, or AI perception
• you want GPU-accelerated spatial perception for robotics or AR on Jetson or desktop GPUs
• you need production-ready SLAM and 3D reconstruction without building it from scratch

When to avoid

• you use a non-ZED camera, since the SDK is tied to Stereolabs hardware
• you need a CPU-only solution, as the SDK depends on NVIDIA GPUs
• you only need basic camera capture without depth or perception features

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computer-vision machine-learning image-processing sdk simulation robotics computer-vision autonomous-vehicles artificial-intelligence cpp python windows cross-platform stereo-vision slam depth-estimation 3d-reconstruction zed-camera point-cloud object-detection human-pose-estimation spatial-perception embedded-vision linux gpu docker

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