OpenVINO Model API

Introduction

Model API is a set of wrapper classes for particular tasks and model architectures, simplifying data preprocess and postprocess as well as routine procedures (model loading, asynchronous execution, etc.). It is aimed at simplifying end-to-end model inference. The Model API is based on the OpenVINO inference API.

How it works

Model API searches for additional information required for model inference, data, pre/postprocessing, label names, etc. directly in OpenVINO Intermediate Representation. This information is used to prepare the inference data, process and output the inference results in a human-readable format.

Currently, ModelAPI supports models trained in OpenVINO Training Extensions framework. Training Extensions embed all the metadata required for inference into model file. For models coming from other than Training Extensions frameworks metadata generation step is required before using ModelAPI.