Imagination’s PowerVR GPU is first to pass OpenVX 1.1 conformance with Khronos
December 15 2016 - 12:00PM
Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces that a PowerVR GPU is
the first to achieve Khronos OpenVX™ 1.1 conformance. With OpenVX,
developers can run fully optimized vision algorithms on the highly
parallel, power-efficient PowerVR GPUs that are at the heart of
many of the world’s mobile, automotive and embedded devices.
OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross platform
acceleration of computer vision applications. It enables
performance and power-optimized computer vision processing,
especially important in embedded and real-time use cases such as
face, body and gesture tracking, smart video surveillance, advanced
driver assistance systems (ADAS), object and scene reconstruction,
augmented reality, visual inspection, robotics and more.
Chris Longstaff, Imagination’s senior director of product and
technology marketing for PowerVR, says: “Imagination supports
OpenVX including the Neural Network Extension across our PowerVR
GPUs and vision IP offerings. Developers can already achieve
remarkable performance when running state of the art convolutional
neural network (CNN) algorithms on PowerVR mobile GPUs. We’re
excited to enable developers to create innovative vision
applications on these devices today, and we look forward to seeing
the amazing things they will create on the PowerVR platforms of the
future.”
Frank Brill, chairman of the Khronos OpenVX working group, says:
“The momentum we are seeing with OpenVX is strong and growing, with
conformant OpenVX 1.0 implementations and tools shipping from
numerous vendors. We congratulate Imagination on being the first
adopter member to achieve OpenVX 1.1 conformance, enabling
developers creating applications on Imagination’s popular PowerVR
GPUs to take advantage of OpenVX 1.1’s expanded range of processing
functions and enhanced flexibility.”
To learn more about using OpenVX 1.1 with PowerVR GPUs,
developers can join the popular PowerVR Insider community at
www.powervrinsider.com.
Imagination is uniquely positioned to help its partners build
innovative vision systems, with its in-depth knowledge of imaging
processors, GPUs, video encoders and embedded CPUs, as well as its
expertise in heterogeneous processing and compute APIs such as
OpenCL™ and RenderScript and emerging higher level APIs for vision
applications such as OpenVX.
About PowerVR GPUs Imagination’s PowerVR
graphics processors (GPUs) are the de facto standard for mobile and
embedded graphics and GPU compute. The PowerVR GPU family leads the
market in technological capability, roadmap breadth and ecosystem,
and is by far the most adopted and shipped technology of its kind.
PowerVR graphics IP comprises a comprehensive portfolio of the
industry’s leading GPUs, supporting a broad range of applications.
See: http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/graphics.asp.
Editor’s Note: * Conformance submission was
achieved with the Imagination OpenVX DDK on an Allwinner A80 chip
with a PowerVR G6230 GPU.
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products#openvx
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