SiftGPU is an implementation of SIFT [1] for GPU. SiftGPU processes pixels parallely to build Gaussian pyramids and detect DoG Keypoints. Based on GPU list generation[3], SiftGPU then uses a GPU/CPU mixed method to efficiently build compact keypoint lists. Finally keypoints are processed parallely to get their orientations and descriptors.
SiftGPU is inspired by Andrea Vedaldi's sift++[2] and Sudipta N Sinha et al's GPU-SIFT[4] . Many parameters of sift++ ( for example, number of octaves, number of DOG levels, edge threshold, etc) are also available in SiftGPU. The shader programs are dynamically generated according to the parameters that user specified.
SiftGPU also includes a GPU exhaustive/guided sift matcher SiftMatchGPU. It basically
multiplies the descriptor matrix on GPU and finds the closest feature matches on
GPU. Both GLSL and CUDA implementations are provided.
SiftGPU requires a decent GPU that has a large graphic memory and supports dynamic branching. GLSL is used by default, and CUDA is provided as an alternative for nVidia graphic cards.
SiftGPU uses GLEW 1.51, DevIL1.77 (can be disabled), GLUT(only by the viewer), and CUDA(optional). You'll need to make sure that your system has all the depending libraries of corresponding versions. To update the libraries, you'll need to replace the header files in SiftGPU\Include\, and the corresponding binaries.
NOTE FOR CUDA
: 1. The thread block setting is currently tuned on nVidia GTX 8800. It may not
be optimized for other GPUs. 2. The CUDA version is not compiled by default. You
need to define CUDA_SIFTGPU_ENABLED to the compiler and recompile the package. For
VS2010 users, you can just use SiftGPU_CUDA_Enabled solution.
SiftGPU-V400 (5.0MB; Including code,
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SimpleSIFT.cpp gives some examples of using SiftGPU
and SiftMatchGPU.
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Partial list of important changes (complete list, previous versions) |
Below is the evaluation of the speed of V340
on different image sizes. "-fo -1" means using upsampled image. "-glsl"
uses GLSL and "-cuda" uses CUDA (The experiment images are all resized
from this image) .
System : nVidia 8800GTX, 768MB, Driver 182.08, Windows XP, Intel 3G P4 CPU,
3.5G RAM. (V311 Speed)
Below is the comparision with Lowe's SIFT on box.pgm using the comparison code from Vedaldi's SIFT .
[1] D. G. Lowe.
Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints . International Journal of Computer Vision, November 2004.
[2] A. Vedaldi. sift++,
http://vision.ucla.edu/~vedaldi/code/siftpp/siftpp.html.
[3] G. Ziegler, et al. GPU point list generation through histogram pyramids. In Technical Report, June 2006.
[4] Sudipta N Sinha, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys and Yakup Genc, "GPU-Based Video Feature Tracking and Matching ",
EDGE 2006, workshop on Edge Computing Using New Commodity Architectures, Chapel Hill, May 2006