Getting Started

Introduction

CUVI is an accelerated ‘Computer Vision & Imaging Software Library’ that leverages many-core hardware of GPUs to add acceleration to your existing vision and imaging applications as well as provides essential functionality to build a solution from scratch. CUVI comes in easy to use, off-the-shelf, modular interface that takes minimal time and developing effort to integrate with your existing applications. CUVI performs magnitudes faster than competing solutions and requires no GPU-programming experience on the part of user.

Download

You can download the latest trial version of CUVI from the website. You'll be asked to signup for CUVI updates after which you will receive download link for Windows OS. Free downloads include Windows OS support for only NVIDIA GPUs. The image/video size limit of free version is 480x320 pixels. You may contact us from the website's contact form or by sending an email on contact@cuvilib.com to purchase CUVI licenses from professional usage and integration support.

Installation

Follow the installer guide to a simple install process. You do not need a license key/file for the trial installation. CUVI Pro comes in a zip package containing all the required files, dlls and license.

Windows Installation

Requirements

• Latest CUDA drivers from NVIDIA [download]
• CUDA capable Graphics Card [see list]
• Windows 7/8 32/64
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (32-bit / 64-bit)
  • You don't need this if you have Visual Studio installed

Install

Run the installer file (EXE) and the setup will guide you through the rest of the process If you have a Beta version of CUVI installed on you PC, we recommend you remove it manually from 'Add/Remove' in Control Panel In case you have CUVI 1.0 and above installed, the new installer will automatically remove previous installation The default install location is C:\Program Files\TunaCode\CUVI\vX.X\ X.X stand for installed version number. In case of version 1.2 the install path is ..\CUVI\v1.2\

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Generating License

• Note: The trial version now doesn't need a license.
• Click on the link 'Generate License' on the download page
• Enter your PC's MAC adress. To get your MAC address open command prompt on Windows (Start-> type "cmd" and press enter) and type: getmac and then press enter

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• Click on the generate license button. It will take you back to the download page where you can see the license being generated and available for download under the heading Your Licenses

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• Put this license.dat file into you CUVI installation's root folder. Do not rename this file
• You are now ready to test your CUVI Installation. At this point you will be able to run the examples in the sample folder in CUVI Installation
• In case CUVI is unable to find the license file, make sure you have an environment variable CUVI_PATH pointing to CUVI's root installation folder

Running CUVI

In CUVI installation folder, go to samples then PreBuiltSamples folder. If you have CUVI and latest NVIDIA driver installed, the samples should run fine.