blakeblackshear.frigate/docs/docs/configuration/detectors.md

---
id: detectors
title: Detectors
---

Frigate provides the following builtin detector types: `cpu`, `edgetpu`, and `openvino`. By default, Frigate will use a single CPU detector. Other detectors may require additional configuration as described below. When using multiple detectors they will run in dedicated processes, but pull from a common queue of detection requests from across all cameras.

**Note**: There is not yet support for Nvidia GPUs to perform object detection with tensorflow. It can be used for ffmpeg decoding, but not object detection.

## CPU Detector (not recommended)
The CPU detector type runs a TensorFlow Lite model utilizing the CPU without hardware acceleration. It is recommended to use a hardware accelerated detector type instead for better performance. To configure a CPU based detector, set the `"type"` attribute to `"cpu"`.

The number of threads used by the interpreter can be specified using the `"num_threads"` attribute, and defaults to `3.`

A TensorFlow Lite model is provided in the container at `/cpu_model.tflite` and is used by this detector type by default. To provide your own model, bind mount the file into the container and provide the path with `model.path`.

```yaml
detectors:
  cpu1:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3
    model:
      path: "/custom_model.tflite"
  cpu2:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3
```

When using CPU detectors, you can add one CPU detector per camera. Adding more detectors than the number of cameras should not improve performance.

## Edge-TPU Detector

The EdgeTPU detector type runs a TensorFlow Lite model utilizing the Google Coral delegate for hardware acceleration. To configure an EdgeTPU detector, set the `"type"` attribute to `"edgetpu"`.

The EdgeTPU device can be specified using the `"device"` attribute according to the [Documentation for the TensorFlow Lite Python API](https://coral.ai/docs/edgetpu/multiple-edgetpu/#using-the-tensorflow-lite-python-api). If not set, the delegate will use the first device it finds.

A TensorFlow Lite model is provided in the container at `/edgetpu_model.tflite` and is used by this detector type by default. To provide your own model, bind mount the file into the container and provide the path with `model.path`.

### Single USB Coral

```yaml
detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb
    model:
      path: "/custom_model.tflite"
```

### Multiple USB Corals

```yaml
detectors:
  coral1:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb:0
  coral2:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb:1
```

### Native Coral (Dev Board)
_warning: may have [compatibility issues](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/1706) after `v0.9.x`_

```yaml
detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: ""
```

### Multiple PCIE/M.2 Corals

```yaml
detectors:
  coral1:
    type: edgetpu
    device: pci:0
  coral2:
    type: edgetpu
    device: pci:1
```

### Mixing Corals

```yaml
detectors:
  coral_usb:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb
  coral_pci:
    type: edgetpu
    device: pci
```

## OpenVINO Detector

The OpenVINO detector type runs an OpenVINO IR model on Intel CPU, GPU and VPU hardware. To configure an OpenVINO detector, set the `"type"` attribute to `"openvino"`.

The OpenVINO device to be used is specified using the `"device"` attribute according to the naming conventions in the [Device Documentation](https://docs.openvino.ai/latest/openvino_docs_OV_UG_Working_with_devices.html). Other supported devices could be `AUTO`, `CPU`, `GPU`, `MYRIAD`, etc. If not specified, the default OpenVINO device will be selected by the `AUTO` plugin.

OpenVINO is supported on 6th Gen Intel platforms (Skylake) and newer.  A supported Intel platform is required to use the `GPU` device with OpenVINO.  The `MYRIAD` device may be run on any platform, including Arm devices.  For detailed system requirements, see [OpenVINO System Requirements](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/openvino-toolkit/system-requirements.html)

An OpenVINO model is provided in the container at `/openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml` and is used by this detector type by default. The model comes from Intel's Open Model Zoo [SSDLite MobileNet V2](https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/open_model_zoo/tree/master/models/public/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2) and is converted to an FP16 precision IR model. Use the model configuration shown below when using the OpenVINO detector.

```yaml
detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: AUTO
    model:
      path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml

model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt
```

### Intel NCS2 VPU and Myriad X Setup

Intel produces a neural net inference accelleration chip called Myriad X.  This chip was sold in their Neural Compute Stick 2 (NCS2) which has been discontinued.  If intending to use the MYRIAD device for accelleration, additional setup is required to pass through the USB device.  The host needs a udev rule installed to handle the NCS2 device.  

```bash
sudo usermod -a -G users "$(whoami)"
cat <<EOF > 97-myriad-usbboot.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2485", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03e7", GROUP="users", MODE="0666", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="f63b", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03e7", GROUP="users", MODE="0666", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1"
EOF
sudo cp 97-myriad-usbboot.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger
```

Additionally, the Frigate docker container needs to run with the following configuration:

```bash
--device-cgroup-rule='c 189:\* rmw' -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb
```
or in your compose file:

```yml
device_cgroup_rules:
  - 'c 189:* rmw'
volumes:
  - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb
```