NVIDIA Buys Into MotionDSP, Creators of CUDA-Based Video Encoder

NVIDIA has gone ahead and partnered themselves with another company, this time one that promises to give the company’s CUDA technology a huge boost. MotionDSP is a company that has been working on advanced video technology for some time, some of which I had the pleasure to see first-hand at NVISION last month. The fact that their software relies a lot on CUDA makes this partnership a no-brainer.

MotionDSP’s upcoming video software, called Carmel, promises to use CUDA to its fullest extent, and in some cases, it will be able to encode in real-time… something not yet seen on any desktop processors today, no matter the frequency or core count. The software will feature various enhancements, such as fixing of jittery videos, lightning up of super-dark videos, among others. You can see real-world examples here. That page also allows a beta sign-up.

Once this software gets released in Q1 2009, it’s bound to put NVIDIA’s CUDA technology in a great light, as long as it can live up to its promises. I’m confident it will, as I’ve been toying with various GPU-accelerated video encoders for the past little while and the results I’ve seen are good. But with MotionDSP’s taking a few more months before its final launch, I’d expect that solution to be far more robust. I’m already looking forward to it.

MotionDSP’s software, codenamed “Carmel”, uses sophisticated multi-frame methods to track every pixel across dozens of video frames, and reconstruct high-quality video from low-resolution sources. MotionDSP’s software significantly reduces compression and sensor noise, improves resolution, and corrects for poor lighting conditions.