Questions

1. State true or false: The use of the d_out[i]++ line instead of the atomicadd operation will yield an accurate result in histogram calculation.
2. What is the advantage of using shared memory with atomic operations?
3. What is the modification in the kernel call function when shared memory is used in the kernel?
4. Which information can be obtained by calculating the histogram of an image?
5. State true or false: The kernel function developed in this chapter for BGR into grayscale conversion will also work for RGB into grayscale conversion.
6. Why is the image flattened in all of the examples shown in this chapter? Is it a compulsory step?
7. Why is the image converted into the uint8 data type from the numpy library before being displayed?