I developed some CUDA processing for the depth data sl.MEASURE.XYZRGBA.
I would like to avoid moving data from GPU (I expect data to be computed on GPU by ZED SDK) then to CPU and then go back to GPU.
I tried to set cam.retrieve_measure(ptCloud, sl.MEASURE.XYZRGBA , sl.MEM.GPU) then I have an error as attribute GPU does not exist (which is used on this page : Using the Depth Sensing API | Stereolabs )
How could i keep data on GPU to avoid extra transfer that cost lots of time ?
Indeed, you cannot keep the memory on the GPU with our Python wrapper. We did not find a way to do this (yet).
However our wrapper is open source (GitHub - stereolabs/zed-python-api: Python API for the ZED SDK)
You are more than free to give us any idea you can have about this kind of CUDA usage in python.
So we recently wanted to achieve the same, and I went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure this out.
I think I got an answer to this issue, and I already raised a PR: https://github.com/stereolabs/zed-python-api/pull/230) containing the changes.
It’s still not thoroughly tested, but I kinda want the community to take it from here.
I hope I will be able to test it soon.
Did you check if it is possible to use sl.MEM.GPU with the latest version of the SDK ( 4.0 ) ?
The documentation does not mention any restriction with it.