CV-CUDA Release v0.3.1

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The v0.3.1 release provides several bug fixes along with documentation updates and performance improvements.

Release Highlights

• Added documentation for Python APIs
• Added CentOS 7 build support with GLIBC >= 2.17
• Improved APIs with C handler reference counting, C++ move semantics, and VarShape iterators
• Removed legacy interfaces typedefs: IImage, ITensor, and IImageBatch
• Handler Manager no longer requires resource requirements object
• Moderate performance improvement for Non-Maximal Suppression (NMS) operator

Bug Fixes

• Addressed QUESTION #23 RuntimeError: cudaErrorIllegalAddress: an illegal memory access was encountered
• Addressed BUG #72 RuntimeError: pybind11_object_dealloc(): Tried to deallocate unregistered instance!
• Addressed BUG #77 Memory sanitizer detects multiple problems when running nvcv_test_types_python
• Fixed Pillow Resize operator bug in clip8_lookups

Known Issues

• Morphology Operator: poor benchmarking performance when iteration parameter > 1
  • Workaround: Set iteration parameter == 1 and run operator multiple times
  • Fix expected in the next release

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