Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic
Hackaday • • general
Key Points:
- Dave from the YouTube channel Dave’s Armoury created a real-life version of the “Marauder’s Map” by using CCTV footage and machine vision to track every person in his hardware store.
- To accurately locate individuals in space, Dave first 3D scanned the entire store using a rover equipped with a Jetson AGX, then processed the massive point cloud data on a high-end HP Z8 Fury workstation with 500 GB of RAM.
- The 3D scan was converted into a 2D floor plan, which was then used alongside NVIDIA’s Deep Stream pipeline to perform object detection and tracking across 50 camera feeds, all processed efficiently on dual GPUs.
- The system includes pose estimation for precise tracking, allowing the map
