openvino/README.md

Contents:

• What is OpenVINO?
  • Components
• Supported Hardware matrix
• License
• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Products which use OpenVINO
• System requirements
• How to build
• How to contribute
• Get a support
• See also

What is OpenVINO toolkit?

OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference.

• Boost deep learning performance in computer vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and other common tasks
• Use models trained with popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch and more
• Reduce resource demands and efficiently deploy on a range of Intel® platforms from edge to cloud

This open-source version includes several components: namely Model Optimizer, OpenVINO™ Runtime, Post-Training Optimization Tool, as well as CPU, GPU, MYRIAD, multi device and heterogeneous plugins to accelerate deep learning inference on Intel® CPUs and Intel® Processor Graphics. It supports pre-trained models from Open Model Zoo, along with 100+ open source and public models in popular formats such as TensorFlow, ONNX, PaddlePaddle, MXNet, Caffe, Kaldi.

Components

• OpenVINO™ Runtime - is a set of C++ libraries with C and Python bindings providing a common API to deliver inference solutions on the platform of your choice.
  • core - provides the base API for model representation and modification.
  • inference - provides an API to infer models on the device.
  • transformations - contains the set of common transformations which are used in OpenVINO plugins.
  • low precision transformations - contains the set of transformations that are used in low precision models
  • bindings - contains all available OpenVINO bindings which are maintained by the OpenVINO team.
    • c - C API for OpenVINO™ Runtime
    • python - Python API for OpenVINO™ Runtime
• Plugins - contains OpenVINO plugins which are maintained in open-source by the OpenVINO team. For more information, take a look at the list of supported devices.
• Frontends - contains available OpenVINO frontends that allow reading models from the native framework format.
• Model Optimizer - is a cross-platform command-line tool that facilitates the transition between training and deployment environments, performs static model analysis, and adjusts deep learning models for optimal execution on end-point target devices.
• Post-Training Optimization Tool - is designed to accelerate the inference of deep learning models by applying special methods without model retraining or fine-tuning, for example, post-training 8-bit quantization.
• Samples - applications in C, C++ and Python languages that show basic OpenVINO use cases.

Supported Hardware matrix

The OpenVINO™ Runtime can infer models on different hardware devices. This section provides the list of supported devices.

Device	Plugin	Library	ShortDescription
CPU	Intel CPU	openvino_intel_cpu_plugin	Intel Xeon with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2), Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and AVX512_BF16, Intel Core Processors with Intel AVX2, Intel Atom Processors with Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE)
	ARM CPU	openvino_arm_cpu_plugin	Raspberry Pi™ 4 Model B, Apple® Mac mini with M1 chip, NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™, Android™ devices
GPU	Intel GPU	openvino_intel_gpu_plugin	Intel Processor Graphics, including Intel HD Graphics and Intel Iris Graphics
GNA	Intel GNA	openvino_intel_gna_plugin	Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit, Amazon Alexa* Premium Far-Field Developer Kit, Intel Pentium Silver J5005 Processor, Intel Pentium Silver N5000 Processor, Intel Celeron J4005 Processor, Intel Celeron J4105 Processor, Intel Celeron Processor N4100, Intel Celeron Processor N4000, Intel Core i3-8121U Processor, Intel Core i7-1065G7 Processor, Intel Core i7-1060G7 Processor, Intel Core i5-1035G4 Processor, Intel Core i5-1035G7 Processor, Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor, Intel Core i5-1030G7 Processor, Intel Core i5-1030G4 Processor, Intel Core i3-1005G1 Processor, Intel Core i3-1000G1 Processor, Intel Core i3-1000G4 Processor
VPU	Myriad plugin	openvino_intel_myriad_plugin	Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2 powered by the Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X

OpenVINO™ Toolkit also contains several plugins which simplify loading models on several hardware devices:

Plugin	Library	ShortDescription
Auto	openvino_auto_plugin	Auto plugin enables selecting Intel device for inference automatically
Auto Batch	openvino_auto_batch_plugin	Auto batch plugin performs on-the-fly automatic batching (i.e. grouping inference requests together) to improve device utilization, with no programming effort from the user
Hetero	openvino_hetero_plugin	Heterogeneous execution enables automatic inference splitting between several devices
Multi	openvino_auto_plugin	Multi plugin enables simultaneous inference of the same model on several devices in parallel

License

OpenVINO™ Toolkit is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. By contributing to the project, you agree to the license and copyright terms therein and release your contribution under these terms.

Documentation

User documentation

The latest documentation for OpenVINO™ Toolkit is available here. This documentation contains detailed information about all OpenVINO components and provides all the important information you may need to create an application based on binary OpenVINO distribution or own OpenVINO version without source code modification.

Developer documentation

Developer documentation contains information about architectural decisions which are applied inside the OpenVINO components. This documentation has all necessary information which could be needed in order to contribute to OpenVINO.

Tutorials

The list of OpenVINO tutorials:

• Jupyter notebooks

Products which use OpenVINO

• OpenCV
• ONNX Runtime
• OpenVINO™ Integration with TensorFlow
• TNN

System requirements

The system requirements vary depending on platform and are available on dedicated pages:

• Linux
• Windows
• macOS
• Raspbian

How to build

See the OpenVINO Wiki to get more information about the OpenVINO build process.

How to contribute

See CONTRIBUTING for details. Thank you!

Get a support

Report questions, issues and suggestions, using:

• GitHub* Issues
• The openvino tag on StackOverflow*
• Forum

Additional Resources

• OpenVINO Wiki
• OpenVINO Storage
• Additional OpenVINO™ toolkit modules:
  • openvino_contrib
• Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit Product Page
• Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit Release Notes
• Neural Network Compression Framework (NNCF) - a suite of advanced algorithms for model inference optimization including quantization, filter pruning, binarization and sparsity
• OpenVINO™ Training Extensions (OTE) - convenient environment to train Deep Learning models and convert them using OpenVINO for optimized inference.
• OpenVINO™ Model Server (OVMS) - a scalable, high-performance solution for serving deep learning models optimized for Intel architectures
• DL Workbench - an alternative, web-based version of OpenVINO designed to facilitate optimization and compression of pre-trained deep learning models.
• Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) - an online, interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision purposes.
• Dataset Management Framework (Datumaro) - a framework and CLI tool to build, transform, and analyze datasets.

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