Sod/README.md

# SOD - An Embedded Computer Vision & Machine Learning Library - [sod.pixlab.io](https://sod.pixlab.io)
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SOD is an embedded, modern cross-platform computer vision and machine learning software library that expose a set of APIs for deep-learning, advanced media analysis & processing including real-time, multi-class object detection and model training on embedded systems with limited computational resource and IoT devices.

SOD was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to accelerate the use of machine perception in open source as well commercial products.

#### Notable SOD features
* Built for real world and real-time applications.
* State-of-the-art, CPU optimized deep-neural networks including the brand new, exclusive RealNets architecture.
* Patent-free, advanced computer vision algorithms.
* Support major image format.
* Simple, clean and easy to use API.
* Brings deep learning on limited computational resource, embedded systems and IoT devices.
* Easy interpolatable with OpenCV or any other proprietary API.
* Pre-trained models available for most architectures.
* CPU capable, RealNets model training.
* Production ready, cross-platform, high quality source code.
* SOD is dependency free, written in C, compile and run unmodified on virtually any platform & architecture with a decent C compiler.
* Amalgamated - All SOD source files are combined into a single C file (sod.c) for easy deployment.
* Open-source, actively developed & maintained product.
* Developer friendly support channels.