Real-time video enhancement using graphical processing units

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a real-time video enhancing algorithm which uses the Graphical Processing Units(GPUs) for faster parallel computations. Also, the paper will discuss the performance gains with GPU respect to a Central Processing Units(CPUs). The video enhancing algorithm is written to address the real-time video enhancement scenario, hence this paper will discuss more on the speed and the quality of the video enhancement. The paper contains the discussion about the trade-off between the quality and speed of the real-timevideo enhancement. The latter part of the paper will discuss the optimizations to have real-time performance that is needed to enhance and play videos up to 4k videos. This paper proposes a generic implementation that can be used to have high-end video quality using low-end video recording devices like mass scale CCTV cameras, etc. This implementation will use NVIDIA CUDA enabled graphics cards.