Hello.
I’m new to CUDA programming and I’m having difficulties concerning an extraction of features from an image.
The idea is to extract features from (16 pixels) X (16 pixels) subwindows throughout the picture. The features are:
Could anyone give me some help on how to do this as fast as possible?
Thank you.
What have you tried so far? A bit of detail about where you stand will certainly allow giving you better advice.
In general, start by reading the CUDA C Programming Guide . For your specific problem, the Parallel Reduction Whitepaper has useful optimization tipps.
Hello tera.
Thank you for your reply. Specially for the Parallel Reduction WhitePaper… I’ll read it and certainly I’ll be able to solve my problem. :) My real problems with CUDA programming still resides in the dificulty of parallelizing serial ideas.
The images I’m dealing with are 752x480 pixel images. I need to extract features for the pixels analysing its neighborhood. So around each pixel of the image I’ll read information of a window of neighboring pixels of size 16x16 pixels. As I said, the features I’ll extract are the mean values of the pixels in these windows (for the tree color components, R, G and B) and its variances (that will give me a simple neighborhood texture information).
After this feature extraction procedure I’ll end up with a feature vector for each pixel. These vectors will feed a neural network for pixel classification.
The neural network is already implemented in the GPU by I got stuck in the feature extraction step so I implemented it in the CPU. But in the end I got only 1fps. :( So now I´m trying to do everything inside the GPU trying to speed up all the process.
I’ll write a kernel for this feature extraction step and post it here to show you if I’m doing good… :)
Thank you again.