Machine Learning for OpenCV 4 - Second Edition

Introduction to OpenVINO

OpenVINO (short for Open Visual Inferencing and Neural Network Optimization). It is designed to optimize various neural networks to speed up the inference stage. Inference, as we have discussed in previous chapters, is the process in which a trained neural network is used to generate results with unseen input data. For example, if a network is trained to classify a dog or cat, then if we feed the image of Tuffy (our neighbor's dog), it should be able to infer that the image is of a dog.

Considering that images and videos have become so common in today's world, there are a lot of deep neural networks trained to perform various operations, such as, multilabel classification, and motion tracking. Most of the inference ...