hello:
I want to use RLE to compress an image in GPU. Does anyone know how to implement a GPU RLE algorithm using GLSL? Any references?thx:)
I want to use RLE to compress an image in GPU.
Why? GPUs only excel at tasks that are very parallelizable. And RLE is not a very parallelizable algorithm. You will likely get nothing out of putting this on the GPU.
There is a very small paper about parallel run length encoding using cuda. The paper suggest to use parallel reduction for summing. But if I read well the speedup given in the paper, it is only 4 times faster on gpu with variable length encoding using shared memory. Using global memory, the performance is worst on GPU.
thanks a lot. I just accelerate the RLE process and read back a compressed image from GPU.
thank you, I will consider the CUDA solution.
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