Year: 2012

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Samsung’s Smart TVs: Here Come The Gesture Interface APIs

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Remember those camera-inclusive televisions unveiled by Samsung at January's CES, which have caused no shortage of controversy, along with at least one humorous (albeit arguably sexist) commercial? Well, Samsung's just released v3.5 of their associated SDK for third-party developers, which supports (among other things) not only Samsung's proprietary IDE but also the Eclipse IDE and […]

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YouTube’s Face Detection-Based Blurring: Digital Protection From Those Intent On Harming

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As the daily news reports unfortunately make regularly clear, existing among us are no shortage of sick and twisted individuals who prey on children they find via (among other avenues) published images. And those same news reports document scores of situations in which captured still photos and video footage have been used by oppressive regimes

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Texas Instruments’ Multicore DSPs: Evaluation Modules Promise Embedded Vision Implementation Ease

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Embedded Vision Alliance Platinum member Texas Instruments recently unveiled two new EVMs (evaluation modules) for the company's KeyStone-based TMS320C665x multicore digital signal processors (DSPs), the TMS320C6654, TMS320C6655 and TMS320C6657. Quoting from the press release (bolded emphasis is mine): Combining fixed- and floating-point capabilities, TI's C665x multicore processors deliver real-time high performance at low power coupled

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Samsung And Google’s Galaxy Nexus: A Facial Recognition Work In Progress

Face Detection, Face Recognition /

I've discussed several times, in past news writeups, the facial recognition-based unlock capabilities built into Google's Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich". Reading others' reviews gives only a secondhand perspective on a technology or product; a personal hands-on analysis is the preferable approach. So it was that I recently was able to borrow a Google-branded, Samsung-developed

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Face.com’s Acquisition: Good For Facebook, Not So Much For Broader Facial Recognition Industry Ambitions

Face Detection, Face Recognition /

Back in mid-April, I devoted a news writeup to the latest developments at facial recognition algorithm developer Face.com, focusing in particular on the API that the company provided for third-party developer leverage, often free of charge. Those bountiful-technology days, unfortunately, have come and gone. A month ago, Facebook decided to acquire Face.com for an unannounced

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Embedded Vision Alliance Further Expands Membership, Announces New Embedded Vision Summit at DESIGN East Event

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OAKLAND, Calif., July 18, 2012 — The Embedded Vision Alliance (www.Embedded-Vision.com) today announced that PointGrab (www.pointgrab.com) and videantis (www.videantis.com) have joined the Alliance as Technology Members. PointGrab is a provider of vision-based gesture control software for digital devices. videantis is a developer of licensable embedded vision hardware and software IP. These latest additions further expand

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Xilinx Video Scaler/On-Screen Display Reference Design Overview

Algorithms, Processors, Videos /

Xilinx's Video Scaler/OSD (on-screen display) reference designs allow the user to quickly evaluate and experiment with the Xilinx Video Scaler IP core. These reference designs work "out of the box" with the Avnet Spartan-6 Industrial Video Processing Kit (IVK). To learn more, visit Avnet's Design Resource Center.

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Embedded Vision Insights: July 12, 2012 Edition

Edge AI and Vision Alliance, Newsletters /

In this edition of Embedded Vision Insights: Alliance Member Summit Preparations and Publications, and Other Website Enhancements Finger Gesture Interfaces Using Microsoft's Kinect Intelligent Back-Up Cameras for ADAS Applications Embedded Vision in the News LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Colleague, As I write these words, final preparations are underway for next week's Embedded Vision Alliance

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Here you’ll find a wealth of practical technical insights and expert advice to help you bring AI and visual intelligence into your products without flying blind.

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