If you’ve seen us at any trade shows in the first half of 2025 you may have seen some model cars on our booth. This was part of an exciting demo we’ve been showing off giving a glimpse into the future of AI at the edge. Our demo features a diorama of a parking lot monitoring system, with a camera capturing images inside it, then an object detector identifying each vehicle and passing cropped images to an on-device Vision Language Model (VLM) that describes the car.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/coming-soon-in-edge-ai-model-cascading-with-vlms