@nodify_at/hailo.js

Hailo.js 🚀

⚠️ Experimental: This project is in active development and APIs may change.

High-performance Node.js bindings for Hailo AI inference accelerators with real-time object detection and streaming capabilities.

🌟 Features

• Native Performance: Direct C++ bindings to Hailo RT for maximum inference speed
• TypeScript First: Full TypeScript support with comprehensive type definitions
• Real-time Streaming: WebSocket-based live detection server with browser visualization
• Temporal Filtering: Advanced object tracking with velocity prediction and smoothing
• Multi-Model Support: Built-in support for YOLO, YOLOv8, YOLOX with automatic model detection
• Production Ready: Performance monitoring, graceful shutdown, and error handling
• Easy Integration: Simple API for both batch processing and streaming applications

📋 Requirements

• Node.js >= 20
• Hailo hardware (Hailo-8, Hailo-8L, etc.) and Raspberry Pi 5 (tested on Raspberry Pi OS with PI 5)
• HailoRT runtime installed
• Raspberry OS

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

npm install @nodify_at/hailo.js

Basic Usage

import { HailoDevice, parseNMS, ModelType } from '@hailo/js';

// Initialize device
const device = new HailoDevice({ debug: true });

// Load model
await device.loadModel({
  type: ModelType.YOLOV8,
  path: './models/yolov8n.hef',
  numClasses: 80
});

// Prepare input (RGB image as Uint8Array)
const input = new Uint8Array(640 * 640 * 3);

// Run inference
const outputs = await device.infer({
  'yolov8n/input_layer1': input
});

// Parse detections
const detections = parseNMS(
  outputs['yolov8n/yolov8_nms_postprocess'],
  80,
  { threshold: 0.5 }
);

console.log(`Found ${detections.length} objects`);

🎥 Live Detection Server

Start a real-time object detection server with WebSocket streaming:

import { LiveDetectionServer } from '@hailo/js/server';

const server = new LiveDetectionServer({
  port: 8080,
  modelPath: 'yolov8n.hef'
});

await server.start();
// Server available at ws://localhost:8080

Open index.html in your browser to see live detections with:

• Real-time video streaming
• Smooth object tracking with temporal filtering
• Performance metrics
• Debug visualization

📚 API Documentation

HailoDevice

Main device interface for inference:

const device = new HailoDevice(options?: DeviceOptions);

// Load a model
await device.loadModel(config: ModelConfig | string);

// Run inference
const outputs = await device.infer(inputs: InferenceInputs);

// Get model info
const info = device.getModelInfo();

// Check if ready
const ready = device.isReady();

// Get performance stats
const stats = device.getPerformanceStats();

Detection Utilities

// Parse NMS output
const detections = parseNMS(buffer, numClasses, options);

// Filter detections
const people = filterByClasses(detections, ['person']);
const highConf = filterByConfidence(detections, 0.7);

// Calculate IoU
const iou = calculateIoU(det1, det2);

// Group by class
const groups = groupByClass(detections);

Temporal Filter

Advanced tracking with velocity prediction:

const filter = new TemporalFilter({
  iouThreshold: 0.1,
  minVisibleFrames: 5,
  useVelocityPrediction: true
});

// Process frame
const filtered = filter.processFrame(detections);

🏗️ Architecture (for demo)

┌─────────────────┐     ┌──────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│   Camera Input  │────▶│ Detection Server │────▶│ WebSocket Clients│
└─────────────────┘     └──────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
                               │
                               ▼
                        ┌──────────────┐
                        │ Hailo Device │
                        └──────────────┘
                               │
                               ▼
                        ┌──────────────────┐
                        │ Temporal Filter  │
                        └──────────────────┘

⚡ Performance

• Inference Speed: Up to 30 FPS on Hailo-8 with YOLOv8
• Low Latency: < 50ms end-to-end processing time
• Efficient Streaming: Hardware-accelerated JPEG encoding
• Optimized Tracking: Minimal overhead temporal filtering

🛠️ Advanced Configuration

Custom Detection Server

const server = new LiveDetectionServer({
  port: 8080,
  modelPath: 'custom-model.hef',
  camera: {
    width: 1920,
    height: 1080,
    fps: 30
  },
  detection: {
    confidenceThreshold: 0.45,
    processEveryNFrames: 2
  },
  temporal: {
    minVisibleFrames: 5,
    useVelocityPrediction: true,
    classSpecificThresholds: new Map([
      [1, { iou: 0.15, confidence: 0.6 }], // person
      [3, { iou: 0.1, confidence: 0.55 }]  // car
    ])
  }
});

Event Handling

device.on('modelLoaded', ({ config, loadTime }) => {
  console.log(`Model loaded in ${loadTime}ms`);
});

device.on('inference', ({ outputs, metrics }) => {
  console.log(`Inference took ${metrics.inferenceTime}ms`);
});

device.on('error', (error) => {
  console.error('Device error:', error);
});

📊 Monitoring & Stats

Built-in performance monitoring:

const stats = device.getPerformanceStats();
console.log(`Average FPS: ${stats.avgFps}`);
console.log(`Average inference: ${stats.avgInferenceTime}ms`);

🧪 Examples

Check out the /examples directory for:

• Basic detection script
• Live streaming server
• Multi-model comparison
• Custom post-processing

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Hailo team for creating the powerful AI accelerator hardware
• YOLO authors for the excellent detection models
• Node.js N-API team for making native addons possible
• The open source community for inspiration and support

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