Why tracking algorithms don't support GPUs?

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Hi,

I’m newbie about object tracking and I’ve been learning about this topic recently.

I have a hobby project that will run on the Nvidia Jetson Nano development board. So this board has GPU and I want to use it (actualIy bought it for this).

I’m currently using CSRT tracking algorithm for my project and actually I’m satisfied. But as a result of my research, this tracking algorithm does not support GPU which is in the opencv-contrib module. In fact, as far as I understand, it does not support any tracking algorithms in the opencv-contrib module.

But why? Are tracking algorithms that cannot be parallelized? What is the story behind this situation?

Thanks.

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at least half the “tracking” module is basically obsolete and unmaintained. most of these trackers are behind the times.

look into the dnn examples. there are trackers based on SiamRPN.

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thank you for your replying.