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Reference app: Tiny-vision object detection on Cortex-M

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Since Mar 23, 2026.

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Description

Build a reference application for object detection (small vision model) on Cortex-M. This is a common TinyML benchmark use case.

  • End-to-end object detection app on Cortex-M target
  • Image input -> detection output pipeline working
  • Latency, memory, and accuracy documented
  • README with build and run instructions

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