A Closer Look at Microsoft Vision AI Kit

Last week, Microsoft and Qualcomm jointly released the Vision AI Kit, smart camera powered by Qualcomm’s AI accelerator chip and Microsoft’s Azure IoT Edge platform.

The Vision AI Dev Kit is a great device to learn how convolutional neural networks work. It is also a good starting point to explore the concepts of Azure IoT Edge. This developer kit is very similar to AWS DeepLens. Both the devices are configured as edge devices with the camera acting as an image processor. Both devices run AI models to perform inference at the edge and send the output back to the cloud.

For the hardware specification and software configuration details, refer to my Forbes article. I also covered the architecture of Azure IoT Edge in one of my previous articles at The New Stack.

When compared to AWS DeepLens, Microsoft Vision AI Kit comes across as a sophisticated and polished device. The developer experience is much better than that of AWS DeepLens.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the steps involved in configuring and connecting Microsoft Vision AI Dev Kit.

Read the entire article at The New Stack

Janakiram MSV is an analyst, advisor, and architect. Follow him on Twitter,  Facebook and LinkedIn.