<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
is	O
an	O
open	O
,	O
royalty-free	O
standard	O
for	O
cross	B-Operating_System
platform	I-Operating_System
acceleration	O
of	O
computer	B-Application
vision	I-Application
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
designed	O
by	O
the	B-Library
Khronos	I-Library
Group	I-Library
to	O
facilitate	O
portable	O
,	O
optimized	O
and	O
power-efficient	O
processing	O
of	O
methods	O
for	O
vision	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
aimed	O
for	O
embedded	B-Architecture
and	O
real-time	B-General_Concept
programs	O
within	O
computer	B-Application
vision	I-Application
and	O
related	O
scenarios	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
specifies	O
a	O
higher	O
level	B-Architecture
of	I-Architecture
abstraction	I-Architecture
for	O
programming	O
computer	B-Application
vision	I-Application
use	O
cases	O
than	O
compute	O
frameworks	O
such	O
as	O
OpenCL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
done	O
while	O
having	O
a	O
consistent	O
and	O
portable	O
vision	O
acceleration	O
API	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
connected	O
graph	O
of	O
vision	O
nodes	O
that	O
can	O
execute	O
the	O
preferred	O
chain	O
of	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
an	O
opaque	O
memory	O
model	O
,	O
allowing	O
to	O
move	O
image	O
data	O
between	O
the	O
host	O
(	O
CPU	B-General_Concept
)	O
memory	O
and	O
accelerator	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
GPU	B-Architecture
memory	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
result	O
,	O
the	O
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
implementation	O
can	O
optimize	O
the	O
execution	O
through	O
various	O
techniques	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
acceleration	O
on	O
various	O
processing	O
units	O
or	O
dedicated	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
architecture	O
facilitates	O
applications	O
programmed	O
in	O
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
on	O
different	O
systems	O
with	O
different	O
power	O
and	O
performance	O
,	O
including	O
battery-sensitive	O
,	O
vision-enabled	O
,	O
wearable	B-General_Concept
displays	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
is	O
complementary	O
to	O
the	O
open	O
source	O
vision	O
library	O
OpenCV	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
in	O
some	O
applications	O
offers	O
a	O
better	O
optimized	O
graph	O
management	O
than	O
OpenCV	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.0	O
specification	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
October	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
sample	O
implementation	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
December	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.1	O
specification	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
May	O
2	O
,	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.2	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
May	O
1	O
,	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Updated	O
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
adopters	O
program	O
and	O
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.2	O
conformance	O
test	O
suite	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
November	O
21	O
,	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.2.1	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
November	O
27	O
,	O
2018	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenVX	B-Operating_System
1.3	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
October	O
22	O
,	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
-	O
for	O
AMD	O
's	O
CPUs	B-Device
and	O
GPUs	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
-	O
for	O
Texas	O
Instruments’	O
Jacinto™	O
ADAS	O
SoCs	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
-	O
for	O
CUDA-capable	B-Architecture
Nvidia	B-Architecture
GPUs	I-Architecture
and	O
SoCs	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
-	O
for	O
Intel	O
's	O
CPUs	B-Device
,	O
GPUs	B-Device
,	O
VPUs	O
,	O
and	O
FPGAs	O
.	O
</s>
