ROS Intel Movidius NCS Release – V0.5.0

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Hi All,

We are happy to announce the v0.5.0 release of ROS Intel Movidius NCS package.

The Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick (NCS) is a tiny fanless deep learning device that you can use to learn AI programming at the edge. NCS is powered by the same low power high performance Movidius™ Vision Processing Unit (VPU) that can be found in millions of smart security cameras, gesture controlled drones, industrial machine vision equipment, and more.This project is a ROS wrapper for NC API of NCSDK, providing the following features:• A ROS service for object classification and detection of a static image file• A ROS publisher for object classification and detection of a video stream from a RGB camera• Demo applications to show the capabilities of ROS service and publisher• Support multiple CNN models of Caffe and Tensorflow, includingo CNN models for object classification AlexNet GoogleNet SqueezeNet Inception_V1 Inception_V2 Inception_V3 Inception_V4 MobileNeto CNN models for object detection MobileNet_SSD TinyYolo_V1

This project has been open sourced in github: https://github.com/intel/ros_intel_movidius_ncs. Please refer to README file for more details about this project. We have tested it on RealSense D400 series camera and Microsoft HD-300 USB camera. Welcome feedback and participation.