Intel® Movidius® Vision Processing Unit (VPU)

This unit enables visual intelligence at a high compute per watt. It supports camera processing, computer vision, and deep learning inferences.

Common uses:

• Optimizing imaging, computer vision, and neural network pipelines

• Delivering high-performance, on-device deep learning inferences

• Furnishing data flow for machine intelligence workloads

• Supplying low power situations such as smart cameras or small compute devices

Works best for:

• Autonomous service robots and drones

• Digital security and surveillance

• Smart home and intelligent wearables

• Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) all-in-one headsets

Resource:

• Supported Neural Network Layers

Supported hardware:

• Intel® Movidius Neural Compute Stick

• Intel® Neural Compute Stick 2

Supported operating systems:

• Ubuntu 16.04.3 TLS (64 bit)

• CentOS 7.4 (64 bit)

• Windows 10 (64 bit)

• Raspbian (target only)

Supported Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit components:

• Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit

• OpenCV and OpenVX functions (needs to be run against the CPU or GPU)