Use Basler USB camera stream for input in Yolo Darknet

1. Darknet Darknet is a framework for running neural networks. It is specifically created for YOLO applications [login to view URL] I am working on a windows system using MSVS Community 2017 (Toolset 140) for compiling the Darknet repository from the link below. [login to view URL] 2. Webcam input in Darknet To activate the YOLO network using as input the PC webcam the following command is used: • 194 MB VOC-model - WebCamera #0: [login to view URL] detector demo data/[login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] -c 0 (From [login to view URL]) Darknet used the following programs for loading the images: • [login to view URL] • [login to view URL] 3. Basler Camera My goal is to use an external USB 3.0 Basler camera for image acquisition. [login to view URL] OpenCV does not support this camera, instead Basler provide a C++ SDK called “Pylon” [login to view URL] Simple tutorial: [login to view URL] 4. Scope of the required next steps: The camera can acquire up to 160 fps. In the application batches of 8 frames will be acquired and condensed in a single image by using simple mathematical operations (for instance, 8 frames will be averaged). The result image stream at 20fps(160fps/8) will be fed in the Yolo CNN