I have been trying to run a custom DDRNet model on the Jetson Xavier NX by basing on the people segmentation isaac-ros repo. I want to know if a modification of the encoder and decoder nodes in the pipeline will do the work or its more to it than I think it is.
Yes, you can write your own custom encoder and decoder see the example here. At the moment, the custom encoder and decoders will not be able to take advantage of Nvidia Isaac ROS NITROS. We are working on supporting custom encoders and decoders to leverage NITROS.
Thanks for the response. May I know Where it is mentioned about the isaac ros not supporting them. I thought the encoder and decoder are two ros nodes themselves
The Nvidia provided encoder and decoder nodes are taking advantage of Nvidia Isaac ROS NITROS (for faster performance) which works for certain classes of DNNs. Currently, custom encoder and decoder nodes are supported, however, they won’t be able to take advantage of NITROS and might be slower.