Consideration of replacing sin(x) of neural-disparity-refinement with approximate computation to map to OAK

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Issue Type

Others

OS

Other

OS architecture

Other

Programming Language

Other

Framework

OpenVINO, Myriad Inference Engine

Model name and Weights/Checkpoints URL

• Neural Disparity Refinement for Arbitrary Resolution Stereo https://github.com/CVLAB-Unibo/neural-disparity-refinement

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Description

Myriad does not support sin(x), so it must be replaced by an approximate calculation. However, Myriad's compiler has the following limitations due to its limited functionality.

1. Power of magnitude cannot be used.
2. Abs not available.
3. Bitwise operations cannot be used.

Relevant Log Output

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URL or source code for simple inference testing code

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