# imageDenoising - Image denoising

## Description

This sample demonstrates two adaptive image denoising techniques: KNN and NLM, based on computation of both geometric and color distance between texels. While both techniques are implemented in the DirectX SDK using shaders, massively speeded up variation of the latter technique, taking advantage of shared memory, is implemented in addition to DirectX counterparts.

## Key Concepts

Image Processing

## Supported SM Architectures

[SM 5.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.3 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.1 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.5 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.6 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.7 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.9 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 9.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)

## Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

## Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, armv7l

## CUDA APIs involved

### [CUDA Runtime API](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/index.html)
cudaGraphicsUnmapResources, cudaMemcpy, cudaMallocArray, cudaFreeArray, cudaFree, cudaGraphicsResourceGetMappedPointer, cudaGraphicsMapResources, cudaDeviceSynchronize, cudaCreateTextureObject, cudaGLRegisterBufferObject, cudaGraphicsUnregisterResource, cudaMalloc, cudaGraphicsGLRegisterBuffer

## Dependencies needed to build/run
[X11](../../../README.md#x11), [OpenGL](../../../README.md#opengl), [Freeglut](../../../README.md#freeglut), [GLEW](../../../README.md#glew)
## Prerequisites

Download and install the [CUDA Toolkit](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) for your corresponding platform.
Make sure the dependencies mentioned in [Dependencies]() section above are installed.

## References (for more details)

[whitepaper](./doc/imageDenoising.pdf)
