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Using YOLOv8 on Frigate With Google Coral USB EdgeTPU

May 23, 2025

Introduction This entire efforts begin when I bought my first Google Coral USB Accelerator, an affordable edge TPU device that was highly recommended among Frigate users to add object detection capabilities to Frigate without having powerful CPU/GPU. It’s a low cost low powered device that has very little running cost, which sounds like a great … Read more

Automated Image Annotation with autoAnnoter (Grounding DINO, YOLOv8, YOLO11, etc…)

May 21, 2025

The most time consuming part about training or fine tuning an object detection model are going to be data preparation, specifically drawing bounding boxes in images and labeling them correctly. That’s why it’s common to use a smarter but slower model to help automate the image annotation process, then use them on training a smaller … Read more