OpenCV version 2.2 was released in December last year with GPU support. This GPU module was written in CUDA which means it’s hardware dependent (only NVIDIA CUDA enabled GPUs can make use of this module). It has opened the gateways of GPU accelerated Image Processing and Computer Vision available right in OpenCV. Using it can be a nightmare for most of you so I decided to log my way of making it work which is not very much different from what’s on the documentation with some added steps.
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