Quasar - a new programming framework for real-time image/video processing on GPU and CPU

Bart Goossens, Jonas De Vylder, Simon Donné, Wilfried Philips

Abstract: In this demonstration, we present a new programming framework, Quasar, for heterogeneous programming on CPU and single/multi-GPU. Our programming framework consists of a high-level language that is aimed at relieving the programmer from hardware-related implementation issues that commonly occur in CPU/GPU programming, allowing the programmer to focus on the specification, the design, testing and the improvement of the algorithms. We will demonstrate a real-time multi-camera processing application using our integrated development environment (IDE). The IDE offers various image/video processing-related debugging functions and performance profiling features.