Inference Engine Developer Guide

Introduction to the OpenVINO™ Toolkit

The OpenVINO™ toolkit is a comprehensive toolkit that you can use to develop and deploy vision-oriented solutions on Intel® platforms. Vision-oriented means the solutions use images or videos to perform specific tasks. A few of the solutions use cases include autonomous navigation, digital surveillance cameras, robotics, and mixed-reality headsets.

The OpenVINO™ toolkit:

The OpenVINO™ toolkit includes the following components:

This Guide provides overview of the Inference Engine describing the typical workflow for performing inference of a pre-trained and optimized deep learning model and a set of sample applications.

NOTES:

  • Before you perform inference with the Inference Engine, your models should be converted to the Inference Engine format using the Model Optimizer or built directly in run-time using nGraph API. To learn about how to use Model Optimizer, refer to the Model Optimizer Developer Guide. To learn about the pre-trained and optimized models delivered with the OpenVINO™ toolkit, refer to Pre-Trained Models.
  • Intel® System Studio is an all-in-one, cross-platform tool suite, purpose-built to simplify system bring-up and improve system and IoT device application performance on Intel® platforms. If you are using the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ with Intel® System Studio, go to Get Started with Intel® System Studio.

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