How to process video in parallel?
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Ilya Tcenov
il 3 Ago 2019
Commentato: Ilya Tcenov
il 10 Ago 2019
Hello.
I need to read a video file (N frames long), process each adjucent pair of frames (to calculate a single output frame), and write the result as a video file (N-1 frames long). Processing time is important to me, so I am trying to do this in parallel.
I can't use a gpuArray() to pass a variable that was created using VideoReader() to the gpu (I get an error). It seems pointless to pass a pair of frames to the gpu and gather the result, as the transition of data back and forth takes longer than the calculation itself. Is there another way of using the gpu in my case?
I can use multiple workers (CPU), but the problem is that I cant write the result of a processed pair as a frame (using writeVideo() ), before the previous frame was writen. I need to make the worker wait if the previous frame wasn't writen yet. What will be the correct way of doing so?
Thank you.
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Divya Gaddipati
il 8 Ago 2019
One possible approach is by using spmd. You could define spmd in such a way that each worker will operate on a chunk of the input video, and then within spmd it is possible to force each worker to write the resultant data in the specified order. Something like this:
spmd
myFrameIdxs = find(discretize(1:totalNumFrames, numlabs) == labindex);
% numlabs - Total number of workers operating in parallel on current job
% read chunk of data
myFrameData = readVideoData(videoFname, myFrameIdxs);
% process chunk of data
myOutput = processVideoFrames(myFrameData);
% output chunks of data in sequence, one at a time.
for writeIdx = 1:numlabs
if labindex == writeIdx
writeVideoData(outVideoFname, myOutput);
end
end
end
For more information on how to use these functions, refer to the following links:
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