We have not checked the availability of GPU devices or memory for our CUDA programs. It may happen that, when you run your CUDA program, the GPU device is not available or is out of memory. In that case, you may find it difficult to understand the reason for the termination of your program. Therefore, it is a good practice to add error handling code in CUDA programs. In this section, we will try to understand how we can add this error handling code to CUDA functions. When the code is not giving the intended output, it is useful to check the functionality of the code line-by-line or by adding a breakpoint in the program. This is called debugging. CUDA provides debugging tools that can help. So, in the following section, we will see some debugging tools that are provided by Nvidia with CUDA.
Hands-On GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV and CUDA
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Hands-On GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV and CUDA
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introducing CUDA and Getting Started with CUDA
Parallel Programming using CUDA C
Threads, Synchronization, and Memory
Advanced Concepts in CUDA
Getting Started with OpenCV with CUDA Support
Basic Computer Vision Operations Using OpenCV and CUDA
Object Detection and Tracking Using OpenCV and CUDA
Introduction to the Jetson TX1 Development Board and Installing OpenCV on Jetson TX1
Deploying Computer Vision Applications on Jetson TX1
Getting Started with PyCUDA
Working with PyCUDA
Basic Computer Vision Applications Using PyCUDA
Assessments
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