Qualcomm Unveils OpenCV for High-performance, Low-power Vision Applications on Snapdragon (Preview)

Xin Zhong, Computer Vision Product Manager at Qualcomm Technologies, presents the “OpenCV for High-performance, Low-power Vision Applications on Snapdragon” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.

For decades, the OpenCV software library has been popular for developing computer vision applications. However, developers have found it challenging to create efficient implementations of their OpenCV applications on processors optimized for edge applications, like the Qualcomm Snapdragon family. As part of its comprehensive support for computer vision application developers, Qualcomm provides a variety of tools to enable developers to take full advantage of the heterogeneous computing resources in the Snapdragon processors.

In this talk, Zhong introduces a new element of Qualcomm’s computer vision tools suite: a version of OpenCV optimized for Snapdragon platforms, which allows developers to leverage and port their existing OpenCV-based applications seamlessly to Snapdragon platforms. Supporting OpenCV v4.x and later releases, this implementation contains unique Qualcomm-specific accelerations of OpenCV and OpenCV extension APIs. Zhong explains how this library enables developers to leverage existing OpenCV code to achieve superior performance and power savings on Snapdragon platforms.