JNpp

Java bindings for NPP



JNpp is a library that makes the NPP libraries available for Java programmers. You may obtain the latest version of JNpp in the Downloads section.


General information about JNpp



Note that the current version of JNpp is an early beta version, and the API may still change. At the moment, JNpp offers the image processing methods of NPP which are provided via the JNppi class, and the signal processing methods of NPP which are provided via the JNpps class. Some functions (like multi-level histogram computations) are not yet fully supported.

As in all JCuda libraries, the methods follow the same naming conventions as the native methods, and only form a thin layer around the original C API. The JNpp Utilities library also mimics the NPP utilities that are provided in the NVIDIA CUDA SDK. Some concepts used in these utility classes and the NPP API are not very well suited for Java. Many methods from NPP may hardly be applied directly in Java applications at all, for example, those that deal with unsigned data types. The JNpp library in its current form is intended as the basis for the development of high-level, object oriented classes that better suit the needs of Java programmers, for example, in applications like ImageJ. Therefore, the low-level methods of the original NPP library are offered with their full verbosity, but also with their full flexibility.


Writing unit tests for thousands of methods like nppiYCbCr420ToYCbCr411_8u_P3P2R or nppiQuantInvTableInit_JPEG_8u16u is not feasible. So if you encounter any errors, please contact me.


Sample


Here is a sample showing the possible application of the JNpp image functions:

Source code: JNppHistEqualizationSample.java
Input image file: lena512color_pale.png

The sample is adopted from the "Histogram Equalization" sample from the NVIDIA CUDA SDK. It reads an input image, converts it to a grayscale image, performs a histogram equalization using JNpp, and writes the resulting image:

Input image:Output image:



Another basic example, showing a basic application of the JNpp signal processing functions to compute the number of zero-crossings of an input signal: JNppsBasicTest.java