The NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier NX™ is the world's smallest AI supercomputer for embedded and edge systems and serves as the foundation of The Imaging Source's latest embedded development kit. It delivers plug-and-play efficiency for rapid development of embedded vision and AI projects for logistics, automation and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. The NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Development Kits' MIPI CSI-2 and FPD-Link III cameras provide exceptional image quality and color fidelity and ensure sustainable application design.

The Imaging Source delivers all NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX development kits with a flashed SD card. The SD card contains all necessary MIPI CSI-2 or FPD-Link III drivers and a custom-designed system image. This image includes significant convenience functionality such as Jupyter notebooks which enables developers to get started quickly with the camera sensor via GStreamer elements. All sensors use either the standard video4linux API or NVIDIA's proprietary API based on the libargus programming interface. The video4linux interface, for example, provides RAW video data and allows direct control of all sensor parameters.

Leveraging the hardware ISP (Image Signal Processor) available on all Jetson platforms, the NVIDIA libargus interface delivers a processed video stream to the application with de-mosaicing, color correction and white balance algorithms applied. The Imaging Source provides a default configuration file for the ISP. Using the GStreamer interface for libargus, the application can interface with NVIDIA's standard Jetson ecosystem software stack which enables the efficient integration of powerful image processing frameworks such as DeepStream, Visionworks and others.

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