core(rvv): fix v_matmul/v_matmuladd scalable semantics and expand lane-group test coverage #29080
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## Platform
SpacemiT X60 (K1), 8-core RISC-V RVV 1.0, VLEN=256, 16GB RAM, OS: Bianbu Linux (kernel 6.6.63), GCC 13.2.0, Build: OpenCV 4.14.0-pre, Release, HAL: YES (RVV HAL 0.0.1)
## Motivation
OpenCV's Universal Intrinsics `v_matmul` and `v_matmuladd` have a semantic bug in the RVV scalable backend (`modules/core/include/opencv2/core/hal/intrin_rvv_scalable.hpp`).
The current implementation uses `v_extract_n(v, 0/1/2/3)` with hardcoded indices, assuming the vector holds exactly 4 float lanes (128-bit fixed). On hardware with VLEN=256 (e.g. SpacemiT K1 / BPI-F3), `v_float32` with LMUL=2 holds 16 lanes. As a result, lanes 4–15 silently reuse the inputs from lanes 0–3, producing wrong results.
OpenCV itself acknowledges this in `modules/core/src/matmul.simd.hpp`:
// v_matmuladd for RVV is 128-bit only but not scalable,
// this will fail the test Core_Transform.accuracy
The RVV scalable `transform_32f` path has been disabled because of this bug. However, the existing `TheTest<R>::test_matmul()` only checked the first 4-lane group (the outer loop was effectively hardcoded to `int i = 0`), so the bug was never caught by CI even on wide-vector backends.
## Modification
**Test fix** (`modules/core/test/test_intrin_utils.hpp`): Expanded `test_matmul()` to iterate over all 4-lane groups:
// Before (only checked lane group i=0)
int i = 0;
for (int j = i; j < i + 4; ++j) { ... }
// After (checks all lane groups)
for (int i = 0; i < VTraits<R>::vlanes(); i += 4)
{
for (int j = i; j < i + 4; ++j) { ... }
}
**Kernel fix** (`modules/core/include/opencv2/core/hal/intrin_rvv_scalable.hpp`): Rewrote `v_matmul` and `v_matmuladd` to process all 4-lane groups correctly. Each group of 4 lanes now independently computes the full matrix multiply using its own `v[i], v[i+1], v[i+2], v[i+3]` inputs. The `transform_32f` RVV path in `matmul.simd.hpp` remains disabled as the autovectorized path shows better performance on current hardware.
## Experiment 1: Bug reproduced on SpacemiT K1 (VLEN=256)
./opencv_test_core --gtest_filter="*intrin*"
Result: `hal_intrin128.float32x4_BASELINE` FAILED with 24 failures, all from lane groups i=4, i=8, i=12 (lanes 4–15).
Representative failures from `v_matmul` (line 1526):
i=4 j=4: actual=158 expected=56
i=4 j=5: actual=166.39999 expected=59.200001
i=8 j=8: actual=314.39999 expected=68.800003
i=12 j=12: actual=512.40002 expected=81.599998
Representative failures from `v_matmuladd` (line 1540):
i=4 j=4: actual=147.5 expected=51.5
i=8 j=8: actual=284.70001 expected=60.700001
i=12 j=12: actual=453.89999 expected=69.900002
Lane group i=0 (j=0..3) passed correctly — confirming the bug only affects lanes beyond the first 4, exactly as expected from the hardcoded `v_extract_n(v, 0/1/2/3)` implementation.
## Experiment 2: Both tests pass after fixing the kernel
./opencv_test_core --gtest_filter='hal_intrin128.float32x4_BASELINE'
[ OK ] hal_intrin128.float32x4_BASELINE (1859 ms)
[ PASSED ] 1 test.
./opencv_test_core --gtest_filter='Core_Transform.accuracy'
[ OK ] Core_Transform.accuracy (819 ms)
[ PASSED ] 1 test.
## Experiment 3: RVV transform path remains disabled (performance regression)
After re-enabling the RVV scalable `transform_32f` path experimentally, benchmarks showed a significant regression vs the compiler-autovectorized scalar path (CV_32FC3):
Size RVV path Scalar path Ratio
640x480 7.83 ms 1.48 ms 5.3x slower
1280x720 23.96 ms 5.17 ms 4.6x slower
1920x1080 53.76 ms 10.12 ms 5.3x slower
The compiler-autovectorized path outperforms the hand-written RVV kernel for this workload, consistent with the original comment in `matmul.simd.hpp`. The `transform_32f` RVV path is therefore kept disabled in this PR. The kernel fix to `v_matmul`/`v_matmuladd` remains necessary for correctness on wide-vector hardware, and the expanded test ensures the bug cannot regress silently in future.
core: add YAML 1.2 support for FileStorage #28482Fixes: #26363
CI Update: https://github.com/opencv/ci-gha-workflow/pull/306
Summary:
- Bool true/false literals support
- Header-less YAMLs support for Python YAML module compatibility. Header-less files are parsed as YAMLs by default
- Added FORMAT_YAML_1_0 flag to FileStorage for fallback.
- New YAML1.2 header
Testing:
- Added Core_InputOutput.YAML_1_2_Compatibility test case in test_io.cpp.
- Added YAML interop test in Python
Better AutoBuffer API #28909
Mimic std::vector<> to help replacing std::vector<T> by cv::AutoBuffer<T> when possible
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- Replace unsafe pointer arithmetic and direct buffer modification with std::string methods.
- Update documentation to clarify that the last digit is used as compression level and truncated from the actual filename.
- Add test cases for .gz and .gz0-9
doc: modernize Doxygen comments to support for v1.15.0 #28903
This PR addresses several documentation build failures encountered with modern Doxygen versions, particularly v1.15.0 (shipped with Ubuntu 26.04).
- flann module: Updated license headers from /**** to /*M****. This prevents Doxygen from misinterpreting the license text (specifically the unclosed backticks in ``AS IS'') as documentation blocks, which previously caused "Reached end of file" errors.
- core module: Fixed a typo in operations.hpp where a doubled backtick (``) caused parsing to fail.
- tutorials: Fixed a missing backtick in real_time_pose.markdown (around line 108) and corrected typos in the RobustMatcher class name.
- Links: Resolved explicit link request failures in calib3d.hpp by ensuring proper namespace resolution.
These fixes ensure that the documentation can be generated without errors on the latest toolchains.
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- Emscripten 5.0.1+ changed version macros to uppercase and deprecated lowercase ones.
- Updated CMake to detect the version from both cases.
- Added macro aliases in intrin_wasm.hpp to avoid deprecated warnings and ensure compatibility.
Fixes#28396 : out-of-bounds read in SIMD type conversion #28397Fixes#28396Fixes#27080
The vx_load_expand function in WASM intrinsics was using
wasm_v128_load which always loads a full 128-bit register
(16 bytes), even when the function only needed 8 elements.
For example, when converting uint8 to float32:
- vx_load_expand needs 8 uint8 elements
- But wasm_v128_load reads 16 bytes from memory
- This causes an 8-byte out-of-bounds read
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Block layout-based convolution in DNN #28585
merge together with https://github.com/opencv/opencv_extra/pull/1321
Some core parts of the new engine in DNN module have been revised substantially:
1. all tests seem to pass, except for `Test_Graph_Simplifier.ResizeSubgraph`, which has been disabled because it does not take the newly added `TransformLayoutLayer` into account. The test should be reworked perhaps.
1. convolution and related operations (maxpool/avgpool) now use so-called block layout (`DATA_LAYOUT_BLOCK`), where `NxCxHxW` tensors are represented as `NxC1xHxWxC0`, where `C1=(C + C0-1)/C0` and `C0` is a power-of-two (usually 4, 8, 16 or 32).
1. graph is now pre-processed and `TransformLayoutLayer` is inserted to convert data from NCHW or NHWC layout to the block layout or vice versa. The transformations are done in a lazy way only when they are really needed. For example, in the whole Resnet only 2 transformations are performed.
1. transformer-based models and other models that do not use convolutions will run as usual, without going to block layout.
1. there is yet another graph preprocessing stage added that embeds constant weights/scale and bias into convolution and batch norm layers.
1. 'batchnorm', 'activation' and 'adding a residual' are now fused with convolution, just like in the old engine. That brings some noticeable acceleration.
1. optimized convolution kernels have been added.
* depthwise convolution, as well as maxpool and avgpool support C0=4, 8, 16 etc. _as long as_ C0 is divisible by the number of fp32 lanes in a SIMD register of the target platform (e.g. on ARM with NEON there must be `C0 % 4 == 0`, on x64 with AVX2 `C0 % 8 == 0`).
* non-depthwise convolution only supports C0=8 for now. C0=8 seems to be a sweetspot for ARM with NEON, x64 with AVX2 or RISC-V with RVV (with 128- or 256-bit registers). For some platforms with dedicated matrix accelerators C0=16 or even C0=32 might be more efficient, but we could add the respective kernels later.
* only fp32 kernels have been added. fp16/bf16 kernels might be added a little later.
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Fix absdiff with int arguments #28267
I believe the fix to the undefined behavior described in #27080 is simply casting to unsigned before subtraction, because
1. casting int to unsigned is well-defined; negative values get represented modulo $2^{32}$
2. overflow in unsigned subtraction is well-defined and the results are modulo $2^{32}$
Since we are computing everything modulo $2^{32}$ and the result must always be a non-negative number below $2^{32}$, this computation should be well-defined and correct.
I have verified this on ARM Apple Clang and on x64 Linux gcc with `-O3` and both produce the correct values in the reproducer of #27080. The test I have added fails with the integer overflow on both platforms I have tested. Perhaps @fengyuentau could verify if this also fixes the issue on the platforms he has tested?
I have added a fix and removed the workarounds. I recommended this approach in #28229, but he decided to revert it.
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core: add NEON support for cvFloor in fast_math.hpp #28243
- This PR adds NEON intrinsics-based implementation for the cvFloor function in fast_math.hpp for Windows-ARM64.
- Both float and double overloads now use NEON intrinsics for cvFloor Function.
- calchist and calchist1d function uses cvFloor function for its computations.
- After adding these changes both functions showed improvement in performance.
**Performance Benchmarks:**
<img width="956" height="273" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a00c98cd-d245-4d11-a9fd-361a3bd89f59" />
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modified Input/OutputArray methods to handle 'std::vector<T>' or 'std::vector<std::vector<T>>' properly #28242
This is port of #26408 with some further improvements (all switch-by-vector-type statements are consolidated in a single macro)
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make cuda::GpuMatND compatible with InputArray/OutputArray #23913
continuation of [PR#19259](https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/19259)
Make cuda::GpuMatND wrappable in InputArray/OutputArray
The goal for now is just wrapping, some functions are not supported (InputArray::size(), InputArray::convertTo(), InputArray::assign()...)
No new feature for cuda::GpuMatND
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