Develop Multiplatform Computer Vision Solutions


Explore the New OpenVINO™ toolkit (formerly Intel® Computer Vision SDK)

Make your vision a reality on Intel® platforms—from smart cameras and video surveillance to robotics, transportation, and more.

Your Computer Vision Apps ... Now Faster

Develop applications and solutions that emulate human vision with the Open Visual Inference & Neural Network Optimization (OpenVINO™) toolkit. Based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), the toolkit extends workloads across Intel® hardware and maximizes performance.

  • Enables CNN-based deep learning inference on the edge
  • Supports heterogeneous execution across computer vision accelerators—CPU, GPU, Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, and FPGA—using a common API
  • Speeds time to market via a library of functions and preoptimized kernels
  • Includes optimized calls for OpenCV and OpenVX*

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Discover the Capabilities

Hardware Acceleration

Harness the performance of Intel®-based accelerators: CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, VPUs, and IPUs.

Who Needs This Product?

Software developers and data scientists who:

  • Work on computer vision, neural network inference, and deep learning deployment capabilities
  • Want to accelerate their solutions across multiple platforms, including CPU, GPU, VPU, and FPGA

What's New?

  • A new cross-hardware approach deploys pretrained deep learning models from popular frameworks such as Caffe*, TensorFlow*, and MxNet.
  • The Model Optimizer imports and converts pretrained models, optimizes topologies, performs horizontal fusion, eliminates batch normalization, and uses quantization.
  • The inference engine delivers heterogeneous, inference solutions on a CPU, GPU, VPU, or FPGA.
  • FPGA support enables CNN workload acceleration through the Intel® FPGA Deep Learning Acceleration Suite.
  • A library of computer vision functions and preoptimized kernels is available through OpenCV.

Recent Updates

Release Notes

OpenVINO™ Toolkit
Intel® Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit

What You Can Do

Security Camera Pipeline

Learn how to run a digital security and surveillance pipeline with vehicle detection that includes vehicle attributes, which includes license plate recognition.

Recognize Known Faces

Develop a facial detection and recognition solution using the OpenVINO toolkit with OpenCV and C++.

Interactive Pipeline

This example demonstrates face detection capabilities, featuring the ability to determine age, gender, and the position of a head.

What Customers Are Saying

"Our strategic focus is bringing artificial intelligence on the edge. The challenge has been in implementing efficient algorithms to balance the workload between different hardware components. The OpenVINO toolkit bridges this gap, giving us a unique tool that speeds up the path to production, both for us and our partners."

— Fabrizio Del Maffeo, vice president and managing director, AAEON Technology, Europe

What Customers Are Saying

"Powered by the new OpenVINO toolkit, which delivers a comprehensive toolkit for developing and deploying [a] vision-oriented solution, and is capable of delivering higher computing and graphics performance, [several solution-ready packages from Advantech are launching] for vertical markets, including people counting, heat map analysis, facial recognition, and loss prevention. With the OpenVINO toolkit, we can easily process real-time video recording and transcoding, human detection and counting, as well as signage management."

— MC Chiang, associate vice president of Service-IoT, Advantech

What Customers Are Saying

"AI presents tremendous opportunity for industrial automation. With machine vision extensively used for guidance, identification, gauging, and inspection in manufacturing processes, the OpenVINO toolkit integrates deep learning tools, computer vision acceleration, and support for heterogeneous execution environments with high inference speed and accuracy for machine vision.”

— Edgar Chen, general manager of the embedded platforms and modules business unit, ADLINK*

What Customers Are Saying

"With the OpenVINO toolkit, we are now able to optimize inferencing across silicon from Intel, exceeding our throughput goals by almost six times. We want to not only keep deployment costs down for our customers, but also offer a flexible, high-performance solution for a new era of smarter medical imaging. Our partnership with Intel allows us to bring the power of AI to clinical diagnostic scanning and other healthcare workflows in a cost-effective manner.”

— David Chevalier, principal engineer, General Electric (GE) Healthcare*

What Customers Are Saying

"Dell EMC* surveillance labs validation program—and joint collaboration with Intel and its software tools—allows us to deliver proven solutions with the top surveillance camera and video software companies."

— Ken Mills, general manager, surveillance and security solutions for Dell EMC

Key Specifications

Not all OpenVINO toolkit features run on all combinations of processor systems. For more information, see System Requirements.

Development Platform

Processors:

6th to 8th generation Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® processors

Operating systems:

  • Ubuntu* 16.04.3 LTS (64 bit)
  • CentOS* 7.4 (64 bit)
  • Windows® 10 (64 bit)

Target System Platforms

CPU:

  • 6th to 8th Generation Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors
  • Intel® Pentium® processor N4200/5, N3350/5, N3450/5 with Intel® HD Graphics

Graphics:

  • 6th to 8th generation Intel Core processor with Iris® Pro graphics and Intel HD Graphics
  • 6th to 8th generation Intel Xeon processor with Iris Pro graphics and Intel HD Graphics (excluding the e5 product family, which does not have graphics)

FPGA & VPU:

  • Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA GX development kit
  • Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick

IPU:

  • Intel® Atom™ processor E3900

Operating systems:

Not all hardware is compatible with every operating system. For more information, see System Requirements.

  • Yocto Project* version Poky Jethro v2.0.3 (64 bit)
  • Ubuntu* 16.04.3 LTS (64 bit)
  • CentOS* 7.4 (64 bit)
  • Windows® 10 (64 bit)