How to Estimate Real Distance to Objects with a Single Camera and YOLO11

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In this video 📝 we are going to take a look at how to estimate real depth to objects with a single camera and yolo11. We are going to use the new depth pro model from apple which is used for metric depth estimation from a single camera. We will then combine that with object detections from the new yolo11 model from ultralytics as well. In just a few lines of code you can estimate the distance to objects.
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[@FernandaZ-u7c]

Everytime I see the video u uploaded, I am excited cuz all these progresses are impressive and promising.

[@NicolaiAI]

So awesome to read! Glad u like them and u made my day 💪

[@hviiid91]

This is very interesting.. again thanks for the video! Looking forward to some potential content on runtime performance with this

[@NicolaiAI]

For sure very interesting and unlocks a bunch of new opportunities in the vision space

[@abophotato]

Good one, I hace seen your old video says c++ is faster than python but why this video is using python 🤔 btw may I ask what's your gpu are using now and it's c++ and python's fps?

[@Skrewex]

The video is pretty quiet compared to other videos and ads on KZbin, maybe bump up the volume a bit?

[@NicolaiAI]

Yeah missed that in this one! Thanks for letting me know

[@Skrewex]

No problem, thanks for the great videos!

[@NazaninPadkan]

Thank you for the nice video. Did you also check the 3d reconstruction using open3d? Whenever I use an estimated depth from a metric MDE algorithm to generate a point cloud, I can not get a right size of objects

[@NicolaiAI]

Most likely because of the focal length and cam params being off. Have u tested out the new one here which also gives u the focal length? Then u can set the optical center to half of img height and half of width

[@NazaninPadkan]

@@NicolaiAI Thanks for your answer. I have calibrated my camera and I have my own parameters. I have just found your new video, but I already tested Metric3D v2 and Anything Depth. But unfortunately I got need measurements in 3D and the sizes are not correct

[@NicolaiAI]

@NazaninPadkan the depth map is not based on your camera parameters but just an output from the ai model. So that might be one of the reasons

[@NazaninPadkan]

What is your suggestion here?

[@kemmunvlogs7388]

Can it be used with IDS camera, man?

[@NicolaiAI]

Yes as long as u can extract the frames and throw them through the model

[@insideyourbrain2333]

it is posiible to implement this code in a Intel realsense camera or doing this with other versions of yolo like yolov3?

[@NicolaiAI]

Not sure why u would use a realsense camera with this but yeah u can use any other object detection models or any algorithm to index the depth map

[@Rahi404]

What's the VRAM usage of this Apple Model?

[@NicolaiAI]

Ran out out mem a couple of times on 16gb while recoding and bunch of stuff open. Prob around 10gb

[@Rahi404]

@@NicolaiAI then I've to find a new way to measure the distance with depth map

[@koufdell]

peace nicolai , i used the model with a mobile rtx 3050ti and it takes ages,any suggestions?

[@NicolaiAI]

Hmm might be because of ram. But did take 20 seconds on my MacBook cpu. Will have to test it on colab or my own gpu

[@koufdell]

@@NicolaiAI well i used fp16 precision and ,while it took some time, it was faster TLDR:the create_model_and_transforms has an argument precision) thx for the reply,awesome content

[@NicolaiAI]

@koufdell thanks a lot!