GRIP on an NVIDIA Jetson TK1

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by marshall

It will not use the GPU unless it is coded specifically for it and I do not believe GRIP is currently coded for GPUs though I'm not certain. I have not had a chance to play with GRIP yet but I can help answer questions about using GPUs for vision.

The Jetson TK1 comes prepackaged (once you run JetPack) with some neat libraries like VisionWorks and OpenCV4Tegra, which both take advantage of GPU acceleration. OpenCV4Tegra is particularly cool as Nvidia has put all of the (normally explicit) GPU functions "under the hood" of the normal OpenCV api, so you can run your normal OpenCV code and get the acceleration bonus.

I'm not super familiar with the GRIP deploy, but I believe they are packaging some pre compiled OpenCV libraries into their Jar, which means you certainly would not get the benefits of hardware acceleration.