Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/pedestrian-following-service-robots-made-possible-with-cuda-acceleration/
A team of researchers from Seoul National University built a pedestrian-following service robot to drive smart shopping carts and other autonomous helpers. The performance of their initial CPU-only implementation was “not acceptable for a real-time system” so they now use a GPU-accelerated CUDA implementation for a 13x performance boost. Mobile robots that track a person…