Optical Flow SDK - Developer Program
Optical Flow SDK is free to use within any application, including commercial and educational applications. To download, you must be a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program.
Key Features and Components
NVIDIA Optical Flow SDK exposes a new set of APIs for this hardware functionality:
- C-API – Windows and Linux
- Windows – CUDA, DirectX 11 and DirectX 12
- Linux – CUDA
- Granularity: 1x1 (Ampere and above), 2x2 (Ampere and above), 4x4 vectors at quarter pixel resolution
- Raw vectors – directly from hardware
- Pre-/post-processed vectors for higher accuracy
- Controlled via easy-to-use presets
- Accuracy: low end-point-error and outliers
- Performance: Up to 150 fps at 4K resolution*
- Robust to intensity changes
- OpenCV integration (GitHub)
- Hardware optical-flow-assisted object tracker library
- Support for 1x1, 2x2 and 4x4 grid sizes
- Forward and backward flow
- Global flow vector
- Optical Flow engine-assisted video frame rate up conversion (FRUC) library and API
- Support for NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture
- Support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
- NEW to 5.0: Native Vulkan optical flow support through Vulkan extension.
| Operating System | Windows, Linux |
|---|---|
| Dependencies | NVIDIA GeForce, RTX and Tesla products with Turing and newer generation GPUs. |
| Development Environment |
GCC 5.1 or newer C/C++ Compiler CUDA 11.1 or highter Toolkit CMake 3.14 or later |
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Download Optical Flow 5.0 - (Windows and Linux)
Release Highlights NVIDIA® Optical Flow 5.0 (February 2023)
- Native Vulkan optical flow support through Vulkan extension.
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Support
Optical Flow support is available on NVIDIA's Developer Zone
If you have any confidential concerns please send your issues directly to video-devtech-support@nvidia.com and we will do our best to address them. E-mailed questions found not to be confidential will often be redirected to the forum so the community can benefit from the answers.