# Lepton Thermal Camera for Object detection

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3934/lepton-thermal-camera-for-object-detection
Category: VOXL SDK and Software (https://forum.modalai.com/category/47/voxl-sdk-and-software)
Tags: voxl-sdk
Posted: 2024-11-13 06:52:35 UTC by Jetson Nano
Replies: 3 · Views: 726

## Jetson Nano · 2024-11-13 06:52:35 UTC

Hello @Eric-Katzfey @tom ,

I had a doubt regarding the thermal camera pipeline(i.e. `voxl-lepton-server`). Can the output from the thermal camera be used for object detection on the `voxl-tflite-server` instead of using the RGB Hires camera as usual.

I am using Lepton thermal camera on VOXL 2 compute.

## Reply by Jetson Nano · 2024-11-25 13:58:12 UTC

Could you please share some updates on this?

## Reply by Zachary Lowell 0 · 2024-11-25 15:59:56 UTC

@Jetson-Nano if you plan on using object detection in tflite server, then you can use yolov5 or yolov8 - I am unsure if you can pipe in that data into tflite with it working as that code base is meant to ingest generic raw and nv frames (RAW8/16 or NV12/21) so streaming in a different frame format might cause issue - if this doesnt fail and it works with the pipe, then it is up to you to train your own model based on the thermal camera feed.

## Reply by Jetson Nano · 2024-11-28 06:55:25 UTC (in reply to Zachary Lowell 0)

@Zachary-Lowell-0 Thank you for your reply. I will test it out and let you of any developments.