OpenCV is a well known computer vision library, used in fields like autonomous vehicles and industrial robotics. NVidia has announced today that the next version, coming out in Spring 2011, will have a nice 5x-10x performance bump thanks to upcoming CUDA integration. This has huge advantages for fields like autonomous vehicles.
“My research lab uses OpenCV extensively in our autonomous vehicles,” said Sebastian Thrun, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. “CUDA GPU acceleration for OpenCV provides my research team an instant performance bump which is critical in our research. OpenCV and CUDA will dramatically increase what is possible with computer vision in our autonomous vehicles.”
For many applications, this has the potential to take them from the 1-2 frames per second rate into ‘realtime’ space. Not only that, but it has the potential to replace what currently takes racks of equipment (which adds problematic weight and power requirements) with simply a few GPUs or something like a Tesla-S.
via NVIDIA Newsroom.
