interface InferenceEngine::ICore

Overview

Minimal ICore interface to allow plugin to get information from Core Inference Engine class. More…

#include <ie_icore.hpp>

template ICore
{
    // methods

    virtual CNNNetwork ReadNetwork(
        const std::string& model,
        const Blob::CPtr& weights
        ) const = 0;

    virtual CNNNetwork ReadNetwork(
        const std::string& modelPath,
        const std::string& binPath
        ) const = 0;

    virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal LoadNetwork(
        const CNNNetwork& network,
        const std::string& deviceName,
        const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config = {}
        ) = 0;

    virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal LoadNetwork(
        const std::string& modelPath,
        const std::string& deviceName,
        const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config
        ) = 0;

    virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal ImportNetwork(
        std::istream& networkModel,
        const std::string& deviceName = {},
        const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config = {}
        ) = 0;

    virtual QueryNetworkResult QueryNetwork(
        const CNNNetwork& network,
        const std::string& deviceName,
        const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config
        ) const = 0;

    virtual Parameter GetMetric(
        const std::string& deviceName,
        const std::string& name
        ) const = 0;

    virtual std::vector<std::string> GetAvailableDevices() const = 0;
    virtual bool DeviceSupportsImportExport(const std::string& deviceName) const = 0;
};

Detailed Documentation

Minimal ICore interface to allow plugin to get information from Core Inference Engine class.

Methods

virtual CNNNetwork ReadNetwork(
    const std::string& model,
    const Blob::CPtr& weights
    ) const = 0

Reads IR xml and bin (with the same name) files.

Parameters:

model	string with IR
weights	shared pointer to constant blob with weights

Returns:

CNNNetwork

virtual CNNNetwork ReadNetwork(
    const std::string& modelPath,
    const std::string& binPath
    ) const = 0

Reads IR xml and bin files.

Parameters:

modelPath	path to IR file
binPath	path to bin file, if path is empty, will try to read bin file with the same name as xml and if bin file with the same name was not found, will load IR without weights.

Returns:

CNNNetwork

virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal LoadNetwork(
    const CNNNetwork& network,
    const std::string& deviceName,
    const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config = {}
    ) = 0

Creates an executable network from a network object.

Users can create as many networks as they need and use them simultaneously (up to the limitation of the hardware resources)

Parameters:

network	CNNNetwork object acquired from Core::ReadNetwork
deviceName	Name of device to load network to
config	Optional map of pairs: (config parameter name, config parameter value) relevant only for this load operation

Returns:

An executable network reference

virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal LoadNetwork(
    const std::string& modelPath,
    const std::string& deviceName,
    const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config
    ) = 0

Creates an executable network from a model file.

Users can create as many networks as they need and use them simultaneously (up to the limitation of the hardware resources)

Parameters:

modelPath	Path to model
deviceName	Name of device to load network to
config	Optional map of pairs: (config parameter name, config parameter value) relevant only for this load operation

Returns:

An executable network reference

virtual SoExecutableNetworkInternal ImportNetwork(
    std::istream& networkModel,
    const std::string& deviceName = {},
    const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config = {}
    ) = 0

Creates an executable network from a previously exported network.

Parameters:

networkModel	network model stream
deviceName	Name of device load executable network on
config	Optional map of pairs: (config parameter name, config parameter value) relevant only for this load operation*

Returns:

An executable network reference

virtual QueryNetworkResult QueryNetwork(
    const CNNNetwork& network,
    const std::string& deviceName,
    const std::map<std::string, std::string>& config
    ) const = 0

Query device if it supports specified network with specified configuration.

Parameters:

deviceName	A name of a device to query
network	Network object to query
config	Optional map of pairs: (config parameter name, config parameter value)

Returns:

An object containing a map of pairs a layer name -> a device name supporting this layer.

virtual Parameter GetMetric(
    const std::string& deviceName,
    const std::string& name
    ) const = 0

Gets general runtime metric for dedicated hardware.

The method is needed to request common device properties which are executable network agnostic. It can be device name, temperature, other devices-specific values.

Parameters:

deviceName	A name of a device to get a metric value.
name	metric name to request.

Returns:

Metric value corresponding to metric key.

virtual std::vector<std::string> GetAvailableDevices() const = 0

Returns devices available for neural networks inference.

Returns:

A vector of devices. The devices are returned as { CPU, FPGA.0, FPGA.1, MYRIAD } If there more than one device of specific type, they are enumerated with .# suffix.

virtual bool DeviceSupportsImportExport(const std::string& deviceName) const = 0

Checks whether device supports Export & Import functionality of network.

Parameters:

deviceName

A name of a device to get a metric value.

Returns:

True if device has IMPORT_EXPORT_SUPPORT metric in SUPPORTED_METRICS and this metric returns ‘true’, False otherwise.

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