Performance comparative of OpenCV Template Matching method on Jetson TX2 and Jetson Nano developer kits

Template Matching is a widely used method for object detection in digital images, it requires great processing power since it is an exhaustive method that compares the intensity levels of a source image pixel-to-pixel with a template image that contains the object to identify. Nowadays there are dedicated embedded systems that provide high processing capabilities, such as the NVIDIA Jetson family. This work presents the experimentation and the performance comparison between the Jetson Nano and Jetson TX2 development kits, when implementing the Template Matching method, in order to get an evaluation criterion to select one of them in image processing projects. It was carried out to six images with different sizes and two variants in terms of the size of the template image. The processing times for the sequential implementation using the CPUs and the parallel implementation with the GPUs were obtained quantitatively. It was observed that the processing times using the parallel versions on average doubled those of the sequential versions and that the Jetson TX2 exceeded the Jetson Nano in execution speeds.