Getting Started With NVIDIA TAO
NVIDIA TAO gives you a low-code, open-source AI framework for accelerating your vision AI model development that’s suitable for all skill levels—from beginners to expert data scientists. Now, you can use the power and efficiency of transfer learning to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and production-class throughput in record time with adaptation and optimization.
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NVIDIA TAO Version 5.5: What’s New
This latest release of NVIDIA TAO delivers several foundation and multi-modal models to accelerate your AI development. These models and features unlock new potential and unleash tremendous productivity gains in vision AI.
- Explore new foundation and multi-modal models:
- Grounding-DINO—Open vocabulary object detection with fine-tuning
- Mask-Grounding-DINO—Open vocabulary instance segmentation with fine-tuning
- NV-CLIP—Foundation model for image and text embedding
- BEVFusion—Sensor fusion model combining image and lidar data for 3D understanding with fine-tuning
- SEGIC—In-context segmentation on any object based on visual prompting
- Foundation Pose—Six DoF object pose estimation for any novel objects
- Mask2Former—State-of-the-art instance and panoptic segmentation model with fine-tuning
- Automatically create label datasets for object detection and segmentation using text prompts.
- Knowledge distillation—Create smaller efficient and accurate networks from distilling knowledge of larger networks.
Production-Ready Vision AI
NVIDIA TAO is also available as a part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, secure, cloud-native AI software platform optimized to accelerate enterprises to the leading edge of AI.
With enterprise-grade security, stability, manageability, and support, NVIDIA AI Enterprise speeds time to value while mitigating the potential risks of open-source software. This ensures business continuity and a reliable platform for running mission-critical AI applications.
Benefits of using TAO with NVIDIA AI Enterprise include:
- Access to exclusive foundation models for vision AI that can be fine-tuned for custom vision AI tasks
- Validation and integration for NVIDIA AI open-source software
- Access to AI solution workflows to speed time to production
- Certifications to deploy AI everywhere
- Enterprise-grade support, security, manageability, and API stability to mitigate potential risks of open source software
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Helpful Resources
New Foundational Models and Training Capabilities
Learn the groundbreaking features in TAO 5.5., including multimodal sensor fusion models, auto-labeling with text prompts, open-vocabulary detection, and more.
Prompt-Based Auto Labeling
Learn how to use the prompt-based auto-labeling tool for object detection and segmentation to significantly reduce your time creating labeled dataset.
AI Training With Multi-Modal Foundation Models
Learn how to create purpose-built AI using vision and language with multi-modal foundation models.
Developer Starter Resources
Developer Blogs
- Train Like an AI Pro Using the New AutoML Feature in TAO
- Create Custom AI Models With TAO in Azure ML
- Introductory TAO Whitepaper
- Developing and Deploying AI-Powered Robots With NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA TAO
- Customize Action Recognition with TAO and Deploy with DeepStream
- Training and Optimizing a 2D Pose Estimation Model with the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit, Part 1 | Part 2
- Preparing State-of-the-Art Models for Classification and Object Detection with the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit
Training Notebooks & Containers
- For vision AI training, access the collection of Jupyter Notebooks and training specs
- For the computer vision models and container collection, Download From NGC
- To try TAO on Google Colab:
Sample Deployment Applications
- To deploy TAO models using NVIDIA Triton™, go to TAO Triton repo
- To deploy TAO models using NVIDIA DeepStream, check out following apps:
To convert TAO model (etlt) to an NVIDIA TensorRT™ engine for deployment with DeepStream, select the appropriate TAO converter for your hardware and software stack.
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Additional Resources
Blogs & Tutorials
- Transforming Industrial Defect Detection With NVIDIA TAO and Vision AI Models
- Customizing AI Models: Train and Deploy Character Detection and Recognition Models With NVIDIA TAO and Triton Part 1 | Part 2 (New)
- Improve Accuracy and Robustness of Vision AI Apps With Vision Transformers and NVIDIA TAO
- Access the Latest in Vision AI Model Development Workflows With NVIDIA TAO Toolkit 5.0
- Train Like an AI Pro Using the New AutoML Feature in TAO
- Create Custom AI Models With TAO in Azure ML
Featured Webinars
- GTC 2024 Create Purpose-Built AI Using Vision and Language With Multi-Modal Foundation Models
- Accelerate AI Model Creation Using AutoML in NVIDIA TAO 4.0
- GTC 2023: AI Model Made Simple Using TAO
- GTC 2023: Running TAO Toolkit API in NetsPresso for Effortless Vision AI Model Development and Optimization
- GTC 2023: Solving Computer Vision Grand Challenges in One-Click
- Top 5 Reasons to Use TAO Toolkit
Partner Resources
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