Volkit: A Performance-Portable Computer Vision Library for 3D Volumetric Data

TL;DR

Volkit is an open-source, performance-portable library designed for efficient 3D volumetric data processing in computer vision, supporting cross-platform use on CPUs and GPUs with applications in medical imaging and virtual reality.

Contribution

The paper introduces volkit, a novel cross-platform API for high-performance 3D volumetric data processing that simplifies resource management for developers.

Findings

Demonstrates high performance in medical and simulation data processing

Successfully integrates into VR applications like CalVR

Shows efficiency and effectiveness through case studies

Abstract

We present volkit, an open source library with high performance implementations of image manipulation and computer vision algorithms that focus on 3D volumetric representations. Volkit implements a cross-platform, performance-portable API targeting both CPUs and GPUs that defers data and resource movement and hides them from the application developer using a managed API. We use volkit to process medical and simulation data that is rendered in VR and consequently integrated the library into the C++ virtual reality software CalVR. The paper presents case studies and performance results and by that demonstrates the library's effectiveness and the efficiency of this approach.