đť‘“VDB: A Deep-Learning Framework for Sparse, Large-Scale, and High-Performance Spatial Intelligence

The paper introduces đť‘“VDB, a deep-learning framework designed to handle large-scale, sparse 3D data efficiently. It focuses on the IndexGrid structure and specialized GPU-accelerated operators for tasks like convolution, ray tracing, and sampling.
3D Vision
Deep Learning
Systems and Performance
Published

August 1, 2024

Engineers and specialists can benefit from đť‘“VDB by leveraging its memory-efficient IndexGrid structure and specialized convolution kernels optimized for different sparsity patterns. The framework provides significant speed and memory efficiency improvements over existing frameworks, enabling more effective handling of large-scale, sparse 3D datasets in deep learning applications.

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