# OpenVINO Toolkit - Open Model Zoo

A collection of optimized, pre-trained deep-learning models and demo applications for the OpenVINO Toolkit, intended to speed up development of high-performance inference applications instead of training models from scratch.

Open Model Zoo provides optimized deep-learning models and demo applications that show how to use them with the OpenVINO Toolkit, an inference engine for Intel hardware. It includes both Intel's own pre-trained models and public pre-trained models, a model-downloader and related automation tools, demos that show how to use the models, and an accuracy-checker tool for validating model accuracy.

The project is now in maintenance mode as a source of new models, with newer model tutorials published as Jupyter notebooks instead. It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and by default collects software usage data to help improve OpenVINO, which can be turned off with a command-line flag.

Website: https://docs.openvino.ai/latest/model_zoo.html