Microsoft and Qualcomm debut their Vision AI Developer Kit

First announced at BUILD 2018, Microsoft and Qualcomm have debuted their Vision AI Developer Kit for building computer vision applications. The kit is built on Qualcomm's Vision Intelligence 300 Platform and can run AI models locally or in the cloud using Microsoft's Azure ML and Azure IoT Edge platforms. The hardware runs Yocto Linux, uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 603 chip, has 4GB of LDDR4X memory, and 64GB of storage. The camera is 8-megapixel, records in 4K, and captures audio using an array of four microphones. An SDK combining Visual Studio Code, a module which can recognise in excess of 183 unique objects, prebuilt Azure IoT deployment configurations, Python modules, and a Vision AI Developer kit extension for Visual Studio is available on GitHub.