# Volkit: A Performance-Portable Computer Vision Library for 3D Volumetric Data

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10213 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10213/

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- First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2022.

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- [Ray Tracing Structured AMR Data Using ExaBricks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.03076/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present volkit, an open source library with high performance implementations of image manipulation and computer vision algorithms that focus on 3D volumetric representations. Volkit implements a cross-platform, performance-portable API targeting both CPUs and GPUs that defers data and resource movement and hides them from the application developer using a managed API. We use volkit to process medical and simulation data that is rendered in VR and consequently integrated the library into the C++ virtual reality software CalVR. The paper presents case studies and performance results and by that demonstrates the library's effectiveness and the efficiency of this approach.