Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With Houdini 20 we got our first official machine learning node from SideFX. While we previously had example scene files that did machine learing related stuff or plugins like mlops, this is the first machine learning tool that you get just by installing Houdini. So we should take a look at what it does and what we can use it for!

Download Project File:
entagma.com/downloads/Free_ONNX_Intro.hip

Links mentioned in the video:
github.com/onnx/models
huggingface.co/julienkay/sentis-MiDaS

Chapters:
00:00 Intro to ONNX
03:14 Getting ONNX Models
05:29 MNIST Model
09:00 Style Transfer Model
15:13 Depth Estimation Model
17:37 Limitations