NVIDIA Maxine NvCVImage API Guide

NvCVImage provides a rich descriptor and optimized functionality for a wide variety of images.

NvCVImage offers the following features:

• All functions available to C and C++.

• Buffers on CPU or GPU.

• Many pixel formats, such as RGB, BGRA, grayscale, and YUV420.

• Many component types, such as u8, f32, and f16.

• Chunky (interleaved), planar, and semi-planar arrangements.

• Buffer allocation, reallocation, and deallocation.

• Image transfer.

• Conversion between various image formats, types, and arrangements.

• Composition of one image with another, controlled by a matte.

• Operations on sub-rectangles of images.

• Image wrappers for zero-copy conversion between NvCVImage and other image representations.