CV-CUDA Release v0.16.0

[justincdavis]

v0.16.0

Release Highlights

CV-CUDA v0.16.0 includes the following changes:​

• New Features and Enhancements:​
  • Added support for Python 3.14​, CUDA 13, GCC-12 to GCC-14 and Blackwell GPU architecture, including Jetson Thor
  • Improved documentation, samples and framework interoperability examples
  • Added new multi-architecture (x86_64, aarch64) Docker images for building (ManyLinux-based) and developing CV-CUDA (Ubuntu-based)
  • Improved Python wheels generation and packaging​
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed Coverity security findings​
• Deprecated Features:
  • Dropped official support for CUDA 11
  • Dropped official support for CUDA Compute Capability SM7 (Volta architecture)
  • Dropped official support for Ubuntu 20.04
  • Dropped official support for Python 3.8

Compatibility and Known Limitations

For the full list, see main README on CV-CUDA GitHub.

License

CV-CUDA is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Resources

1. CV-CUDA GitHub
2. Optimizing Microsoft Bing Visual Search with NVIDIA Accelerated Libraries
3. Accelerating AI Pipelines: Boosting Visual Search Efficiency
4. Optimize Short-Form Video Processing Toward the Speed of Light
5. CV-CUDA Increasing Throughput and Reducing Costs for AI-Based Computer Vision with CV-CUDA
6. NVIDIA Announces Microsoft, Tencent, Baidu Adopting CV-CUDA for Computer Vision AI
7. CV-CUDA helps Tencent Cloud audio and video PaaS platform achieve full-process GPU acceleration for video enhancement AI

Acknowledgements

CV-CUDA originated as a collaborative effort between NVIDIA and the ByteDance Machine Learning team.

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[dlesage-nvidia]

Note: we are providing the Python wheels in the Assets section for the time being, we will be publishing them on Pypi shortly.