Building a GPU-Resident YOLO26 Object Detection Pipeline on the AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 GPU

Modern AMD GPUs include a dedicated hardware block for video processing called the Video Core Next (VCN) engine. By chaining VCN directly into machine learning frameworks, you can build an object detection pipeline where a video frame stays in VRAM from decode to the final bounding boxes. The host sees only the surviving detections.