GPGPU Programming for Games and Science

Chapter 7

Sample Applications

7.1 Video Streams

The video stream sample illustrates the parallel copying that was men-

tioned in Section 4.7. The application is located at

GeometricTools/GTEngine/Samples/Graphics/VideoStreams

A video stream is a collection of images through time. Some application do-

mains have multiple video streams, presumably synchronized in time. Stereo

vision is one such domain where you have two streams, one per camera. The

goal is to process the images as they arrive from their producer, whether live

camera feeds or recordings on disk.

Although it would be nice to demonstrate the concept with real video

data, that is a lot of data ...