SVM on CUDA

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Hi @berak, I have a few questions.

1) SVM is used in GPU version of HOG. Can we use of same detection method here? Linear SVM is used for the HOG. I am using nonlinear multiclass SVM. 2) Is there any alternate for this problem? (library or ..)

Thanks.

1) indeed the HOGDescriptor is using it's own binary LINEAR SVM implementation. and all required there is a simple dot product between the (pretrained) support vector and the current feature, so that's easy to do ! ;)

2) idk. but personally, i've been quite successfully using custom SVM kernels with opencv's SVM (like SSE optimized stuff, 2 or 3 times speedup)

@berak..Thanks for the reply. You are correct :) Actually, I want to use the support vector file which I have trained by using OpenCV on CPU. I just wanted to apply that support vectors on new data by using Cuda. but I think, it is very complicated as I am using multiclass SVM.

let me correct, If I am wrong. To create SVM in order to work with Cuda. First, I have to train the customize kernel which can work with cuda. Then, use the support vectors with the same kernel. But can you refer good material about this?

the HOG cpu code is here , then it gets thresholded against rho, and that's all ;)

and opencv's svm kernels are here

apart from that, no, i've no resources about this in general, and no 1st hand exp. with cuda specifically ;(

@berak..Thnak you for the links. But maybe the Cuda SVM version will be updated in the next OpenCV version release. :)

But maybe the Cuda SVM version will be updated

i do not think, that's likely to happen, given how small the core dev team is, after the intel takeover, and also the current "let's move all things cuda out !" and "deep learning über alles" spirit there ;(

again, if you can achieve something, they'll happily accept your contribution, but nothing will happen "on it's own" there, i'm afraid.

@berak..Nowadays, CUDA is very important to speed the process. Sure, if I achieve something important, I will happy to contribute.

i'll be happy to see this ;)

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