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Revision History

The following table shows the revision history for this document.

Section Revision Summary
07/22/2021 Version 1.4
Introduction Added Vitis AI Library 1.4 Release Notes section.

Updated the block diagram in the Overview section.

Installation Update the whole chapter.
Libraries and Samples Added eight new libraries including PointPainting, Pointpillars_nuscenes, Multi-task V3, and SA-Gate Segmentation.
Programming Examples Added the Developing with Vitis AI API_3 (Graph Runner) section.

Added the Using the xdputil Tool section

Performance Updated the performance data for all the platforms.
API Reference Updated the API References.
02/03/2021 Version 1.3
Entire document Updated links.

Updated the performance data in the Performance chapter.

12/17/2020 Version 1.3
Introduction Added the Vitis AI Library 1.3 Release Notes.

Updated the block diagram in the Overview section

Installation Update the whole chapter.
Libraries and Samples Added eight new libraries incuding Retinaface, Face Quality, Hourglass Pose Detection, and Pointpillars.
Performance Updated the performance data for all the platform.
API Reference Updated the API References.
07/21/2020 Version 1.2
Entire document Minor changes
07/13/2020 Version 1.2
Introduction Added Vitis AI Library 1.2 Release Notes

Updated the block diagram in the Overview section

Installation Update the whole chapter.
Libraries and Samples Added manipulation methods for multiple elf models.

Added Face Recognition, Plate Detection, Plate Recognition, and Medical Segmentation.

Programming APIs Updated this chapter and all the APIs are introduced as appendices in this document.
Performance Added the performance data of U280 and U50LV

Updated the performance data of U50, ZCU102, and ZCU104

03/23/2020 Version 1.1
Introduction Added Vitis AI Library 1.1 Release Notes
Installation Added content for Cloud operation.

Updated the Setting Up the Host section.

Performance Added the performance data of U50

PDF Version of Documentation

A PDF of this documentation is available here: Vitis AI Library User Guide (UG1354).