# Getting Started

VisionPro Deep Learning provides a collection of machine vision tools, built on deep learning technology, that can address hard-to-program challenges. For example, traditional machine vision tools often struggle when a production line has visually similar parts that have many variations. In deployments like these, deep learning can offer a good solution where you do not have to program difficult machine vision applications.

With VisionPro Deep Learning, you can train your own tool, which is a vision-optimized deep neural network, based on a labeled image set from your production line. Once trained, a tool can perform the following tasks:

Tool | Task
Blue Locate | Locate and identify features in images
Blue Read | Locate and read characters and strings in images
Green Classify | Classify images
Red Analyze | Identify, locate, and characterize defects in images

VisionPro Deep Learning combines a machine vision tool library with deep learning tools inside a common development and deployment framework. The software has a standalone GUI, called Cognex Deep Learning Studio, but also supports C++/CX API for application development.