Feat: v3.1.0 merge to main

[brian-intel]

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Merge v3.1.0 changes to main

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[antoniomtz]

I didn't find this public image on dockerhub yet. How are we supposed to download it ? https://hub.docker.com/r/intel/edge_video_analytics_microservice/tags

[brian-intel]

Good call out. For this Image the user will need to download from the Edge catalog. I'll add some steps in the documentation on how to download the image from https://edgeservicescatalog.intel.com/details/?microserviceType=recipe&microserviceNameForUrl=edge-video-analytics-microservice