Savant

Savant is an open source computer vision and video analytics framework built on NVIDIA DeepStream. It is designed for real time video analytics on NVIDIA edge and data center hardware, and the project compares itself to Django or Rails, but for processing video streams and images. It targets ML and computer vision engineers who want to move from a proof of concept pipeline to a production application. Developers work in Python and can combine libraries such as OpenCV CUDA, PyTorch, CuPy and CV CUDA inside pipelines. The framework covers more than model serving, including video stream access and delivery, routing, buffering, storage and augmentation. The site shows reference architectures for hybrid edge and cloud setups over a ZeroMQ based protocol, automotive fleets on Jetson Orin with a buffer adapter that survives network outages, robotics with ROS 2 publishing, and scalable cloud deployments over Kafka. More than 30 sample applications are provided, along with documentation, a blog and a Discord community. Savant comes from the In Sight team, the ML and AI department of Bitworks Software, which also sells custom services such as data labeling, model training, pruning and quantization, validation and pipeline development. Those services are quoted on request. The framework itself is open source and the site lists no license prices.