Wellingborough, UK – 28th July 2011. “The growth in machine vision revenues shows signs of slowing”; so says John Morse, Senior Analyst at IMS Research. He continued that this was not entirely unexpected following the dramatic recovery during 2010 from recession. Quoting from IMS Research’s Machine Vision 2011 report, he continued by saying that he […]
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The VCA Europe 2011 Conference was held on June 27th & 28th at the Hilton Paddington Hotel in London, UK. The objective of the conference was to provide a forum for senior executives, technical managers, and marketing personnel from leading VCA companies to meet with end-users, integrators and other industry players to examine the market
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Former EDN Magazine Senior Technical Editor takes a key role in empowering design engineers to harness embedded computer vision technology. Oakland, California, August 2, 2011 — After 14 years with EDN magazine, award-winning journalist Brian Dipert has joined the Embedded Vision Alliance as Editor-in-Chief of the Alliance’s website, www.embedded-vision.com. In his role, Brian will be
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Robotics is a key development focus area for embedded vision…err…visionaries. Perhaps the most popular robot line currently available for sale is the Roomba vacuum cleaner series and closely related Scooba floor scrubbers, designed and manufactured by iRobot (who, not coincidentally, is also a leading producer of military robotic systems). However, Roomba's visual acuity is at
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As yesterday's post noted, embedded vision applications are rapidly broadening their reach beyond historical niches into widespread-adoption areas. Sometimes, this expansion occurs with the enthusiastic support of those being affected by it. Other times, though, the reaction isn't quite as sanguine. Such is the seeming case with facial recognition, which is the topic of an
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One of my notable off-hours pursuits is long-distance trail running. To wit, two weekends ago I successfully completed my first ultramarathon, the Tahoe Rim Trail 50K (which ended up being ~33.6 miles). For grins, here I am at around mile 24, courtesy of the official race photographer: Gorgeous scenery, eh? My buddy Steve from San
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Microsoft, with Kinect for the Xbox 360, doesn't have an 'exclusive' on motion-based game console control. Nintendo’s Wii game console released in late 2006 was the trendsetter in this regard, although the company's approach isn't vision-based (at least in the visible light spectrum, that is). The first-generation Wii Remote combines two key circuit subsystems to
Speaking of the Xbox 360…yesterday, Microsoft released Avatar Kinect, a capability first unveiled at Microsoft's early-January Consumer Electronics Show keynote and free to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers (and to all Xbox 360 users through September 8) from Kinect Fun Labs. The Xbox 360 user interface has incorporated user-customizable Avatars since mid-November 2008; here's what currently
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Qualcomm Incorporated, a developer and licensor of wireless communications and mobile processing technologies, announced today that it has acquired a portion of the intellectual property assets of embedded vision pioneer GestureTek, along with "key engineering resources," focused on mobile applications. This is not an outright acquisition, however; GestureTek is "retaining other assets that relate to
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by Bob Perez, IMS Research Special Discount for Embedded Vision Alliance Partners! LONDON, UK – June 14, 2011. The agenda for this year's Video Content Analysis Europe Conference is now available online and features some of the industry's leading minds in the video analytics, security and embedded vision arenas highlighted by an afternoon keynote from
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