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Hands-On GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV and CUDA

By : Bhaumik Vaidya
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Hands-On GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV and CUDA

By: Bhaumik Vaidya

Overview of this book

Computer vision has been revolutionizing a wide range of industries, and OpenCV is the most widely chosen tool for computer vision with its ability to work in multiple programming languages. Nowadays, in computer vision, there is a need to process large images in real time, which is difficult to handle for OpenCV on its own. This is where CUDA comes into the picture, allowing OpenCV to leverage powerful NVDIA GPUs. This book provides a detailed overview of integrating OpenCV with CUDA for practical applications. To start with, you’ll understand GPU programming with CUDA, an essential aspect for computer vision developers who have never worked with GPUs. You’ll then move on to exploring OpenCV acceleration with GPUs and CUDA by walking through some practical examples. Once you have got to grips with the core concepts, you’ll familiarize yourself with deploying OpenCV applications on NVIDIA Jetson TX1, which is popular for computer vision and deep learning applications. The last chapters of the book explain PyCUDA, a Python library that leverages the power of CUDA and GPUs for accelerations and can be used by computer vision developers who use OpenCV with Python. By the end of this book, you’ll have enhanced computer vision applications with the help of this book's hands-on approach.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Working with videos in OpenCV

This section will show the process for reading videos from a file and webcam using OpenCV. It will also describe the process for saving videos to a file. This can also work with USB cameras attached to computers. Videos are nothing more than a sequence of images. Though OpenCV is not optimized for video processing applications, it does a decent job with it. OpenCV is not able to capture audio, so we have to use some other utilities with OpenCV to capture both audio and video.

Working with video stored on a computer

This section describes the process of reading a video file stored on a computer. All the frames from a video will be read one by one, operated upon, and displayed on the screen in all...