ROS2 Jazzy with OpenVINO 2025 - Release Candidate 1

New features in this version:

• Support ROS2 Jazzy
• Support Intel OpenVINO Toolkit v2025.0/2024.6
• Added Intel NPU (Neural Processing Unit) support
• Enhanced Docker support for both Ubuntu 22.04 (ros2 humble) and Ubuntu 24.04 (ros2 jazzy)
• Updated librealsense to version 2.57.5

Features are tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.

What's Changed

• Update README to correct branch link and enhance Intel NPU support description by @jbz in 663b62e
• Update branch references in README and Dockerfile to use 'ros2' instead of 'ros2_jazzy' in 9109f16
• Update CI workflows and Dockerfiles to use new librealsense repository in ae6f94a
• Refactor docker_run.sh and run.sh for improved container handling and build process in a712ed6
• [ROS2] [Jazzy] [NPU] Refactor pipeline configurations to use environment variables for model paths and labels in #12
• Creating docker container for ROS2 Humble with OpenVINO 2025.2.0 and Jazzy support in 6254ff7
• Replace the public model file in #329
• Fix typo in the ros topic name '/segmented_objects' in #328
• Update Dockerfile in #325
• Fixed bash script errors and warnings reported by shellcheck tool in #321

Full Changelog: 0.10.0_galactic...ros2_ov2025_jazzy_rc1

Version v0.10.0_galactic

New features in this version:

• Support ROS2 Galactic
• Support Intel OpenVINO Toolkit v2021.4LTS

Features are tested on Ubuntu20.04.

What's Changed

• update CI setup-ros version by @congliu0913 in #208
• Update documentation for Foxy-Ubuntu20.04 support by @LewisLiuPub in #207
• Foxy+ov.2021.3 by @LewisLiuPub in #209
• Add Dockerfile (openvino-2021.3) by @congliu0913 in #212
• dev-ov2021.4 by @beathx in #214
• Galactic dev by @pqLee in #218
• Dockerfile and bugfix. by @pqLee in #219
• Update Dockerfile by @LewisLiuPub in #222
• Code sync for galactic by @LewisLiuPub in #223

Full Changelog: 0.9.0_2020.3LTS...0.10.0_galactic

Version 0.9.0_2020.3LTS

This release provides the following features:

• Support Intel openVINO toolkit version 2020.3LTS (see more from Release Notes).
• Support ROS2 Dashing and ROS2 Foxy.

Version 0.7.0_2019R3.1

This release provides the following features:

• Support openVINO toolkit 2019R3.1 (see more from Release Notes).
• Fine tune for ROS2 Dashing.
• Add OpenVINO Pipeline Composable Node to support intra-process multiple nodes, under the consideration of communication and computing performance.

This release has been passed tests based with binary version and opensource version of Openvino Toolkit.

Version 0.6.0

This release provides the following features:

• Support openVINO toolkit 2019R1.1 (see more from Release Notes).
• Support Multiple pipeline. One or more pipelines can be configured and launched in parallel.
• Support Yolo V2 model for object detection.
• Support inference result filtering.

This release has been passed tests based with binary version and opensource version of Openvino Toolkit.

Version 0.5.0_R5

This is the release of ROS2 wrapper for CV API of OpenVINO™, providing the following features:

• Add OpenVINO R5 support
• Add people re-identification
• Add people attributes recognition
• Update the design of ROS2 service interface

This release is based with OpenVINO open source version at tag 2018_R5 .
This release is also verified on OpenVINO 2018 R5 Release. See OpenVINO Release Notes for more details.

Version 0.5.0

This is the release of ROS2 wrapper for CV API of OpenVINO™, providing the following features:

• Add OpenVINO R4 support
• Add object segmentation
• Add transportation/vehicle scenarios for object detection
• Add ROS2 service interface
  This release is based with OpenVINO open source version at tag 2018_R4.
  This release is also verified on OpenVINO 2018 R4 Release. See OpenVINO Release Notes for more details.

Version 0.4.0

This is the release of ROS2 wrapper for CV API of OpenVINO™, providing the following features:

• Support object detection
• Support Rviz output.

This release is based on OpenVINO 2018 R3 Release. See OpenVINO Release Notes for more details.
This release is also verified with OpenVINO open source version at tag 2018_R3 and tag 2018_R4.

Version 0.3.0

This is the initial release of ROS2 wrapper for CV API of OpenVINO™, providing the following features:

• Support CPU and GPU.
• Support standard USB camera and Intel® RealSense™ camera
• Support Video or Image file as detection source
• Support person-attributes-recognition, including face detection, emotion recognition, age & gender recognition and head pose recognition.
• Demo application to show above detection and recognition.