Making Computer Vision Real Today – For Any Application

This sponsored post explores one of the solutions making computer vision a reality today for more applications: Intel's Distribution of OpenVINO (Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization) toolkit. With the demand for intelligent vision solutions increasing everywhere from edge to cloud, enterprises of every type are demanding visually-enabled – and intelligent – applications for surveillance, retail, manufacturing, smart cities and homes, office automation, autonomous driving, and more coming every day. Increasingly, AI applications are powered by smart vision inputs. OpenVINO includes Intel's deep learning deployment toolkit, which includes a model optimizer that imports and trains models from a number of frameworks (Caffe, Tensoflow, MxNet, ONNX, Kaiai). Up till now, most intelligent computer vision applications have required a wealth of machine learning, deep learning, and data science knowledge to enable simple object recognition, much less facial recognition or collision avoidance.