NVIDIA NPP

What is NPP?

NVIDIA NPP is a library of functions for performing CUDA accelerated processing. The initial set offunctionality in the library focuses on imaging and video processing and is widely applicable for developers in these areas. NPP will evolve over time to encompass more of the compute heavy tasks in a variety of problem domains. The NPP library is written to maximize flexibility, while maintaining high performance.

NPP can be used in one of two ways: 

• A stand-alone library for adding GPU acceleration to an application with minimal effort. Using this route allows developers to add GPU acceleration to their applications in a matter of hours.
• A cooperative library for interoperating with a developer’s GPU code efficiently.

Either route allows developers to harness the massive compute resources of NVIDIA GPUs, while simultaneously reducing development times.

Face Detection	Conceptual Diagram
	Application NPP C Runtime for CUDA NVIDIA GPU

LIST OF PRIMITIVES

Data Exchange and Initialization Set Convert Copy CopyConstBorder Transpose SwapChannels Arithmetic and Logical Operations Add Sub Mul Div AbsDiff Threshold and Compare Operations Threshold Compare Color Conversion RGBToYCbCr YcbCrToRGB YCbCrToYCbCr ColorTwist LUT_Linear	Filter Functions FilterBox Filter FilterRow FilterColumn FilterMax FilterMin FilterMedian Dilate Erode SumWindowColumn SumWindowRow JPEG DCTQuantInv DCTQuandFwd QuantizationTableJPEG GEOMETRY TRANSFORMS Mirror WarpAffine WarpAffineBack WarpAffineQuad WarpPerspective WarpPerspectiveBack	WarpPerspectiveQuad Resize Statistics Functions Mean_StdDev NormDiff Sum MinMax HistogramEven RectStdDev ComputerVision Canny