How to install hailo_apps_infra for pose estimation on Raspberry Pi 5?

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Hi Hailo Team and Community,

I’m currently developing a pose estimation system on the Raspberry Pi 5 using the Hailo-8L Entry-Level AI Accelerator.

However, I’ve hit a roadblock:
The official hailo-rpi5-examples repo does not include the hailo_apps_infra module required to run pose_estimation_pipeline.py. I’ve tried installing it using:

pip install git+https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailo-apps-infra.git

…but this method either fails or becomes unstable on Raspberry Pi OS.

My goal:
Run pose_estimation_pipeline.py (with yolov8s_pose_h8l.hef) directly on Raspberry Pi 5, and save keypoint inference results for later processing.

My questions:

  1. How can I properly install or use hailo_apps_infra on Raspberry Pi 5?
  2. Is there an official or recommended source/package?
  3. Does any Docker image or SDK bundle include this module?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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Hi @Yuji
At DeGirum we developed PySDK, a python package to simplify such application development with Hailo. For your particular use case, you can see our published guide at: User Guide 4: Simplifying Instance Segmentation on a Hailo Device Using DeGirum PySDK. Hope this helps. Please reach out if you need any help getting things to work.

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think something might be wrong with the latest updates. I’m experiencing the same issue — everything was working fine until I updated today. Now, the pose estimation becomes non-functional shortly after starting. Tested on RPi5 with Hailo-8L.