Abstract:
Digital speckle correlation method has the advantages of low demand of the measurement environment, overall non-contact measure, however, the algorithm efficiency has been one of the bottlenecks limiting its development. The graphics processing unit (GPU) has the natural parallelism, GPU highperformance computing brings great efficiency on computer image processing. By programming with the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) platform, the GPU high-performance parallel processing was applied for the traditional digital speckle point-by-point search algorithm, cross search algorithm and genetic algorithm.Comparing with the traditional method, the experimental results show that the efficiency of these 3 methods improve by 20,8,31 times respectively for 150150 pixels speckle image, while by 183,33,44 times respectively for 500500 pixels speckle images and by 424,116,44 times respectively for 1 0001 000 pixels speckle images.