Overview: ESP32 CAM-Based Object Detection and Recognition
This tutorial covers the topic of object detection and recognition based on ESP32 CAM using OpenCV . OpenCV is an open source image processing library that is widely used not only in industry but also in research and development.
Here for object detection we use cvlib library . This library detects objects using a pre-trained AI model on the COCO dataset. The name of the pretrained model is YOLOv3.
In this tutorial, we will describe its functionality, pin description and how to program the ESP32 camera module using the FTDI module. We will also setup the Arduino IDE for the ESP32 camera module. We will also upload the firmware and then handle object detection and recognition