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HiLetgo 2pcs ESP32-CAM Camera Module ESP32-S OV3660 3MP Camera Development Board + Micro USB to Serial Port CH340C 4.75V-5.25V Wireless WiFi Bluetooth with TF Card Slot for Arduino Raspberry Pi

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Probably not, unless you're willing to stretch the definition of 'real time' or 'image'. The classic Arduino Uno processor aka the ATMega328 does about 1 million 8-bit instructions per second per MHz of clock[0]; the Uno iirc has a 8mhz crystal. Even for the contrived example of a 1MP webcam that outputs uint8 grayscale values, you'd only be able to read it at about 8 frames per second, max, much less do anything with it. If you limited yourself to 64x64 boolean images, maybe; you could probably run a simple NN to categorize MNIST examples or do blob detection.

If you want to mess around with image processing within the realm of the Arduino framework, you could pick up a super cheap ESP32-CAM dev board [1], which has a small camera and a dual core microprocessor with much less anemic specs. You can of course program it using the Arduino IDE or, as I prefer doing it, using PlatformIO [2] which is a CLI tool and VSCode extension that allows you to use the [Arduino, ZephyrRTOS, mbed] framework with a zillion different dev boards and architectures.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATmega328

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-ESP32-CAM-Development-Bluetoo...

[2]: https://platformio.org/

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