Exploring the OpenVINO Toolkit

The OpenVINO toolkit is developed and packaged by Intel and is one of the most important packages for optimizing model performance. This makes the product useful in edge applications. It should not come as a surprise that Intel is the key player behind this toolkit since Intel is well-known for developing highly optimized libraries and tools for computation, such as OpenCV*, OpenVX*, Python* (this is different from Python and is an Intel distribution of accelerated Python), Intel MKL, and many more.

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These asterisks (*) imply that we are talking about highly optimized versions of the corresponding tool or library.

The OpenVINO toolkit specifically focuses on two things – interoperability and performance optimization. Let's talk about interoperability first, referencing deep learning for a moment to understand this term. We have several types of deep learning libraries – PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Caffe, to name a few. We...