We strive to make ODM as fast as possible. GPUs are very good at performing parallel calculations on blocks of data. While they can’t be employed at every stage of the pipeline, they can help in several areas. GPU-based features extraction has been in ODM for a while (if you ventured to use the opendronemap/odm:gpu docker image) and has given some modest speed improvements when run on consumer hardware compared to its CPU implementation. But perhaps the most useful area […]