colored image to greyscale image using CUDA parallel processing

Question

I am trying to solve a problem in which i am supposed to change a colour image to a greyscale image. For this purpose i am using CUDA parallel approach.

The kerne code i

Answer 1

You are running following number of block and grids:

  const dim3 blockSize(numCols/32, numCols/32 , 1);  //TODO
  const dim3 gridSize(numRows/12, numRows/12 , 1);  //TODO

yet you are not using any threads in your kernel code!

 int absolute_image_position_x = blockIdx.x;  
 int absolute_image_position_y = blockIdx.y;

think this way, the width of an image can be divide into absolute_image_position_x parts of column and the height of an image can be divide into absolute_image_position_y parts of row. Now the box each of the cross section it creates you need to change/redraw all the pixels in terms of greyImage, parallely. Enough spoiler for an assignment :)