Speeding-up the CONTACT package by means of the Graphics Processing Unit

CONTACT is a computer program to calculate contact areas for 3D frictional contact problems. The program is maintained by VORtech BV. During the bachelor project, it is investigated if the GPU can be used to gain performance during certain parts of the calculations.

Low Complexity Feature Point Detection and Tracking using CUDA

High speed feature point detection and tracking is very demanding for many realtime computer vision applications. In existing work, the commonly used feature point detection algorithms like Harris and KLT (Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) and feature tracking algorithm (Pyramidal-KLT) were redesigned to increase the performance by reducing the algorithmic...

Ray Tracing NURBS Surfaces using CUDA

Several approaches have been made towards directly ray tracing NURBS-surfaces without first tessellating the surface. Some of these approaches have been implemented on the GPU in order to achieve interactive rates. This thesis presents CNRTS, a CUDA-based system capable of ray tracing NURBS-surfaces. In this system, the surfaces are subdivided...

Accelerating Computational Electromagnetic Diffraction Model on Programmable Graphics Processors

This thesis is done in the framework of wafer metrology to accelerate an electromagnetic diffraction model (EDM), which is used to measure the profile on a wafer, on programmable graphics processors (GPU). The main focus of this thesis is to investigate the suitability of EDM to GPU architectures. This study contributes with statistical data and...