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.. _v0.1.0-prealpha:

PreAlpha
========

CV-CUDA-0.1.0 is the first release of CV-CUDA. This release is for evaluation purposes only.

Release Highlights
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This CV-CUDA release includes the following key features:

* Core components including Image and Tensor with Batch support
* Utilities to help write CUDA kernels
* 6 Operators - Reformat, Resize, Custom Crop, Normalize, PadAndStack, ConvertTo
* Tensor interoperability with pytorch/gpu, Image interoperability with pytorch/gpu, pillow/cpu, opencv/cpu
* Python bindings
* Sample applications
* API documentation

Compatibility
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This section highlights the compute stack CV-CUDA has been tested on

* Ubuntu x86 >= 20.04
* CUDA driver >= 11.7

The Sample applications based on TensorRT have been tested with TensorRT >= 8.5

Known Issues
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* There will be few updates in the Tensor API, Image Formats and Operator names in the next release
* Limitations in the usage of the operators which are described in the API documentation

License
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Nvidia Software Evaluation License