Beta.1

The v0.3.1 release provides several bug fixes along with documentation updates and performance improvements.

Release Highlights

• Added documentation for Python APIs

• Added CentOS 7 build support with GLIBC >= 2.17

• Improved APIs with C handler reference counting, C++ move semantics, and VarShape iterators

• Removed legacy interfaces typedefs: IImage, ITensor, and IImageBatch

• Handler Manager no longer requires resource requirements object

• Moderate performance improvement for Non-Maximal Suppression (NMS) operator

Bug Fixes

• Addressed QUESTION #23: RuntimeError: cudaErrorIllegalAddress: an illegal memory access was encountered`

• Addressed BUG #72: RuntimeError: pybind11_object_dealloc(): Tried to deallocate unregistered instance!

• Addressed BUG #77: Memory sanitizer detects multiple problems when running nvcv_test_types_python

• Fixed Pillow Resize operator bug in clip8_lookups

Known Issues

• Morphology Operator: poor benchmarking performance when iteration parameter > 1 - Workaround: Set iteration parameter == 1 and run operator multiple times - Fix expected in the next release

Acknowledgements

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