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.. _v0.8.0-beta:

v0.8.0-beta
===========

Release Highlights
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CV-CUDA v0.8.0 includes the following changes:

* **New Operator**:

  * Introduced fused 'ResizeCropConvertReformat' operator

* **New Features**:

  * Improved initialization of Image and ImageBatchVarShape: enabled efficient cache reuse
  * Improved benchmarking utilities: added throughput computation and power/clock monitoring
  * Added tests to Resize, BilateralFilter, CvtColor, Erase, JointBilateralFilter, PillowResize

* **Bug Fixes**:

  * Fixed potential crash when using custom streams
  * Switched PairwiseMatcher to use L2-norm as default
  * Fixed documentation of CropFlipNormalizeReformat



Compatibility and Known Limitations
-----------------------------------

See main README on `CV-CUDA GitHub <https://github.com/CVCUDA/CV-CUDA>`_.

License
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CV-CUDA is licensed under the `Apache 2.0 <https://github.com/CVCUDA/CV-CUDA/blob/main/LICENSE.md>`_ license.

Resources
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1. `CV-CUDA GitHub <https://github.com/CVCUDA/CV-CUDA>`_
2. `CV-CUDA Increasing Throughput and Reducing Costs for AI-Based Computer Vision with CV-CUDA <https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/increasing-throughput-and-reducing-costs-for-computer-vision-with-cv-cuda/>`_
3. `NVIDIA Announces Microsoft, Tencent, Baidu Adopting CV-CUDA for Computer Vision AI <https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/03/21/cv-cuda-ai-computer-vision/>`_
4. `CV-CUDA helps Tencent Cloud audio and video PaaS platform achieve full-process GPU acceleration for video enhancement AI <https://developer.nvidia.com/zh-cn/blog/cv-cuda-high-performance-image-processing/>`_

Acknowledgements
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CV-CUDA is developed jointly by NVIDIA and the ByteDance Machine Learning team.