NVIDIA Holoscan SDK v2.4.0
v2.4.0

Built-in Operators and Extensions

The units of work of Holoscan applications are implemented within Operators, as described in the core concepts of the SDK. The operators included in the SDK provide domain-agnostic functionalities such as IO, machine learning inference, processing, and visualization, optimized for AI streaming pipelines, relying on a set of Core Technologies.


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The operators below are defined under the holoscan::ops namespace for C++ and CMake, and under the holoscan.operators module in Python.

Class

CMake target/lib

Documentation

AJASourceOp aja C++/Python
BayerDemosaicOp bayer_demosaic C++/Python
FormatConverterOp format_converter C++/Python
HolovizOp holoviz C++/Python
InferenceOp inference C++/Python
InferenceProcessorOp inference_processor C++/Python
PingRxOp ping_rx C++/Python
PingTensorRxOp ping_tensor_rx C++/Python
PingTensorTxOp ping_tensor_tx C++/Python
PingTxOp ping_tx C++/Python
SegmentationPostprocessorOp segmentation_postprocessor C++/Python
VideoStreamRecorderOp video_stream_recorder C++/Python
VideoStreamReplayerOp video_stream_replayer C++/Python
V4L2VideoCaptureOp v4l2 C++/Python

Given an instance of an operator class, you can print a human-readable description of its specification to inspect the inputs, outputs, and parameters that can be configured on that operator class:

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std::cout << operator_object->spec()->description() << std::endl;

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print(operator_object.spec)

Note

The Holoscan SDK uses meta-programming with templating and std::any to support arbitrary data types. Because of this, some type information (and therefore values) might not be retrievable by the description API. If more details are needed, we recommend inspecting the list of Parameter members in the operator header to identify their type.


The Holoscan SDK also includes some GXF extensions with GXF codelets, which are typically wrapped as operators, or present for legacy reasons. In addition to the core GXF extensions (std, cuda, serialization, multimedia) listed here, the Holoscan SDK includes the following GXF extensions:

GXF Holoscan Wrapper

The gxf_holoscan_wrapper extension includes the holoscan::gxf::OperatorWrapper codelet. It is used as a utility base class to wrap a holoscan operator to interface with the GXF framework.

Learn more about it in the Using Holoscan Operators in GXF Applications section.

UCX (Holoscan)

The ucx_holoscan extension includes nvidia::holoscan::UcxHoloscanComponentSerializer which is a nvidia::gxf::ComponentSerializer that handles serialization of holoscan::Message and holoscan::Tensor types for transmission using the Unified Communication X (UCX) library. UCX is the library used by Holoscan SDK to enable communication of data between fragments in distributed applications.

Note

The UcxHoloscanComponentSerializer is intended for use in combination with other UCX components defined in the GXF UCX extension. Specifically, it can be used by the UcxEntitySerializer where it can operate alongside the UcxComponentSerializer that serializes GXF-specific types (nvidia::gxf::Tensor, nvidia::gxf::VideoBuffer, etc.). This way both GXF and Holoscan types can be serialized by distributed applications.


HoloHub

Visit the HoloHub repository to find a collection of additional Holoscan operators and extensions.

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