General discussion • CSI Camera Vs USB Camera

Hi All,

I plan to run an object detection model on a Raspberry Pi 4/5 and then stream the video to the cloud. I have two questions:

Camera choice:
Should I use a CSI camera or a USB camera? Which option is more computationally efficient on the Raspberry Pi?

Model selection:
Which lightweight object detection model provides the best performance in terms of FPS on the Raspberry Pi?

Any guidance or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Statistics: Posted by shan4usmani — Mon Dec 15, 2025 2:28 pm

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