Hello ! i am a mechanical engeneer student and i am beginning a project that consists in develop a tool for image processing for industry ( artificial vision).
I remembered that i saw some nice arm processor boards that are not that difficult to build, and the price is quite low (about 1000 euros a prototype). My question is: is the arm processor capable of supporting multiple acquiring image devices (cameras) and process them (by a C program)? I think an intel pentium @ 450 MHz is capable, but how do i comparfe with arm, before i buy? My idea is to develop an custom board and to connect there multiple cameras (as needed ... 1 to 4 cameras) filter the image and provide results (for example, to count pills in a pill box), basing that in installing a base debian system and then provide packages of the application of image treatment. what do you think? Just for the record, i am an active debian user in x86 and x86-64. best regards Luis Matos
