VPUs are specially designed to accelerate machine vision tasks, such as identify images, words, or analyze video. VPUs are distinct from video processing units or graphics processing units, which are specialised for video encoding and decoding.
Movidius aims to infuse AI capabilities into everyday devices through several of its initiatives. AI is broken up into two steps - Deep learning consists of feeding data into a machine learning algorithm so it can train itself to accomplish a task, such as identify images, words, or analyze video.