This Vulkan back-end is for handling GPU-based compute for neural networks with this Open Computer Vision library as an alternative to the CUDA and OpenCL GPU compute support.Intel expects to have its next-gen GPU on the market in 2020.
At this stage the Vulkan back-end they are looking to merge into OpenCV can handle convolution, Concat, ReLU, LRN, PriorBox, Softmax, MaxPooling, AvePooling, and Permute. Other layer types are planned moving forward as well as more performance tuning.
Intel adding Vulkan compute back-end for OpenCV
Posted on Monday, October 01 2018 @ 10:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck