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Seeing the Future, Today
There’s a lot to learn from watching your business: for example, how customers move through your stores and what they look at, where your production line slows down, or what inventory needs to be restocked. But it’s not humanly possible to keep an eye on business all the time. That’s where computer vision steps in.
Intel® technologies power vision solutions that enterprises can deploy today—with the flexibility to adapt for future use cases. With computer vision, companies of all sizes can unleash AI in edge devices (like cameras), in edge servers, or in the cloud.
What Is Computer Vision?
Computer vision combines cameras, edge- or cloud-based computing, software, and artificial intelligence (AI) to enable systems to “see” and identify objects. Intel has a rich portfolio of technologies to enable AI, including CPUs for general purpose processing and computer vision and vision processing units (VPUs) to provide acceleration. Valuable in a wide range of environments, computer vision systems can recognize objects and people quickly, analyze audience demographics, inspect manufactured products, and much more.
Computer vision uses deep learning to form neural networks that guide systems in their image processing and analysis. Once fully trained, computer vision models can perform object recognition, detect and recognize people, and even track movement.
Edge to Cloud Computing
With the powerful combination of edge and cloud computing, businesses can create a future in which applications dynamically move across the organization to where the greatest value can be found.
Computer Vision Use Cases
Today’s computer vision systems support a range of industries, from manufacturing to retail to finance, helping businesses extend and enhance AI at the edge. Object detection, object recognition, and object classification are the key functions in computer vision systems today.
AI and Computer Vision Success Stories
AI and computer vision technologies and capabilities are changing constantly. See what’s possible with real-world customer success stories using the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit.
Computer Vision for Smart Cities
Smart city technologies can help gather video feeds from the streets, so city leaders can make smarter operational decisions.
Machine Vision
This type of computer vision helps advance industrial IoT and automation by enabling equipment monitoring, predictive maintenance, and more.
Shopper Analytics in Retail
Computer vision can help retailers understand where to place products, determine when inventory needs re-stocking, and get a better picture of customer demographics.
Medical Imaging
The latest computer vision technologies are transforming medical imaging by streamlining workflows, which helps to enable faster and accurate diagnosis, and improving patient care.
Programmable Vision Solutions
Intel® FPGAs deliver high performance, low latency and custom workloads for rapid innovation through reconfigurable and flexible fabric and I/O. Many of these innovations now require integrated AI, and FPGAs are enabling our customers’ intelligent services from the cloud to the edge in applications such as autonomous systems, robotics, and industrial controls.
Object Detection and Recognition
With these capabilities, smart cities can track vehicles and adjust traffic light timings to alleviate congestion, manufacturers can identify defects, and retailers can enhance inventory management.
Intel® Vision Portfolio
Deploy edge AI solutions for vision and more, exactly where they’re needed to achieve real-time responses and gain insights fast.
IoT and Embedded Processors
Our latest, enhanced for IoT processors offer unique features for functional safety and real-time performance—ideal for robotics, automation, and other use cases.
Accelerators and Programmable Devices
Add efficiency and flexibility to demanding computer vision and edge AI workloads with Intel® Movidius™ VPUs, Intel® FPGAs, and other programmable devices. Intel Movidius VPUs balance power efficiency and performance to enable intelligent cameras and edge devices while FPGAs add customizable connectivity for low-latency applications.
Software to Accelerate Development
Accelerate your work—from prototype to production—with software that streamlines development and allows your applications to scale across multiple types of compute and use cases.
Ecosystem Enablement
The Intel® AI: In Production ecosystem focuses on reducing deployment complexities, promoting partner AI offerings, matchmaking among our community partners, and integrating with Intel’s partner programs to help deploy and scale solutions for AI at the edge.
Notices and Disclaimers
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