Nvidia's New TX2 Board Does Dual 4K-Camera Object-Detection in Real Time Make:

Machine learning is complex, but nonetheless has pushed its way to professional and maker communities alike. Nvidia has lead much of this with their TK1 and TX1 modules; now, with the new release of the Jetson TX2, the AI capabilities we have access to have just doubled. The new hardware, announced last night at a press event in San Francisco, retains the same form factor as the TX1 -- roughly the size of a credit card, it's meant as a drop-in replacement. It replaces the TX1's Mawell GPU with a Pascal unit, doubles the TX1's storage and memory, and increases its video encoding and decoding specs. With it, the company states that it can get either twice the performance of the TX1 (handling object detection and tracking from two 4K cameras simultaneously), or get double the efficiency running the same configuration as a TX1.