NVIDIA Launches Metropolis Software Partner Program For Deep Learning Platform

NVIDIA announces it has brought together a dozen software partners for its Metropolis Software Partner Program. The program offers a curated list of applications that makes it easy for systems integrators and hardware vendors to build new products, according to the company. The NVIDIA Metropolis intelligent video analytics platform applies deep learning to video streams for applications such as public safety, traffic management and resource optimization. Together, we're taking advantage of the more than 1 billion video cameras that will be in our cities by the year 2020 to solve a dizzying array of problems. Imagine video-based, automated, real-time control of traffic signals to ease traffic congestion.