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

You're reading from   Hands-On GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision with OpenCV and CUDA Effective techniques for processing complex image data in real time using GPUs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789348293
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhaumik Vaidya Bhaumik Vaidya
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Preface 1. Introducing CUDA and Getting Started with CUDA FREE CHAPTER 2. Parallel Programming using CUDA C 3. Threads, Synchronization, and Memory 4. Advanced Concepts in CUDA 5. Getting Started with OpenCV with CUDA Support 6. Basic Computer Vision Operations Using OpenCV and CUDA 7. Object Detection and Tracking Using OpenCV and CUDA 8. Introduction to the Jetson TX1 Development Board and Installing OpenCV on Jetson TX1 9. Deploying Computer Vision Applications on Jetson TX1 10. Getting Started with PyCUDA 11. Working with PyCUDA 12. Basic Computer Vision Applications Using PyCUDA 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Constant memory

The CUDA language makes another type of memory available to the programmer, which is known as constant memory. NVIDIA hardware provides 64 KB of this constant memory, which is used to store data that remains constant throughout the execution of the kernel. This constant memory is cached on-chip so that the use of constant memory instead of global memory can speed up execution. The use of constant memory will also reduce memory bandwidth to the device's global memory. In this section, we will see how to use constant memory in CUDA programs. A simple program that performs a simple math operation, a*x + b, where a and b are constants, is taken as an example. The kernel function code for this program is shown as follows:

#include "stdio.h"
#include<iostream>
#include <cuda.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>

//Defining two constants
__constant__...
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