NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review - Issue 31

NVIDIA CUDA GPUs Accelerate Video Analysis for Russian YouTube

Co-founders of Russian video site RuTube (www.rutube.ru) have launched LicenZero (www.licenzero.ru), a project focused on preventing illegal posting of video on RuNet (the Russian internet). Detection of copyrighted video is challenging.

The exploding popularity of streaming online video in Russia, combined with the necessity to analyze video in a fraction of a second, caused the developers at LicenZero to seek out new approaches to the problem.

They found that even highly-optimized, proprietary algorithms running on CPUs were not sufficient to handle the complex computational requirements. LicenZero developers then turned to CUDA and GPU computing.

LicenZero's CEO, Oleg Volobuev, commented: "A single NVIDIA Tesla system performed the work of 28 traditional 3GHz CPUs. We achieved a 30X speed-up, which transformed the video analysis problem into a tractable one and resulted in savings related to hardware as well as power consumption. This is a real breakthrough." Source: NVIDIA