While perusing a video (shown below) which entices viewers to jailbreak their Apple handheld hardware (and was of interest to me only as a source of potential new apps to install…I've already jailbroken my two iPhone 4s, along with my fourth-generation iPod touch and first-generation iPad), I came across the above still frame and found […]
Facial Recognition Unlock: An iOS Jailbreak, And Samsung’s Photo Block Read More +
Dear Colleague, Last week's quarterly Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, held in Silicon Valley, was notably successful on several fronts. With nearly 50 member attendees representing nearly all of the Alliance companies, the Summit was an effective opportunity to touch base with existing business contacts, make new connections, exchange information, and strategize the way forward for
Embedded Vision Insights: April 3, 2012 Edition Read More +
Wellingborough, UK – 27th March 2012 – IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS) has revealed in its quarterly tracker of the machine-vision market that from 2010 to 2011 the market in Asia Pacific grew significantly less than those in EMEA or the Americas. The tracker takes published as well as submitted data from leading suppliers
IMS Research Market Tracker Reveals Surprise Result Read More +
Rapidly emerging applications in the area of embedded vision require ability to do real-time processing of one or more streams of HD video at high frame rates. In this demonstration, Xilinx's Navanee Sundaramoorthy, Product Manager for Processing Platforms, shows how you can use the Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform with dual ARM Cortex-A9 processors and programmable
HD Video Processing using Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP for Intelligent Video Systems Read More +
By Jeff Bier Founder Embedded Vision Alliance Co-Founder and President BDTI This article was originally published on Altera's Technology Center. It is reprinted here with the permission of Altera. With the emergence of increasingly capable processors, image sensors, memories and other semiconductor devices, along with associated algorithms, it's becoming practical to incorporate computer vision capabilities
Processing Options For Implementing Vision Capabilities in Embedded Systems Read More +
The Blackfin BF608 and BF609 feature an analytics accelerator, the Pipelined Vision Processor. These Blackfins are optimized for variety of applications such as automotive driver assistance, industrial machine vision, and security & surveillance.
Analog Devices’ Blackfin Processors are Optimized for Embedded Vision Read More +
This video describes the new ADSP-BF60x series of high-performance Blackfin Processors. The BF608 and 609 are optimized for embedded vision applications and the BF606 and 607 are optimized for high-performance general purpose DSP applications.
Introducing Analog Devices’ Blackfin ADSP-BF60x Processors Read More +
Remember the Samsung image sensor-inclusive televisions that I first mentioned in early January, with a follow-up blurb last Friday? Well, thanks to a Slashdot heads-up earlier today, I've got even more to say…and it's disturbing, to say the least. The title, "New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It," may be a sufficient topic tip-off, but
Unwanted Surveillance: An Inevitable Outcome of Consumer Non-Cognizance? Read More +
Converting images from one color domain to another is a common and often misunderstood operation in embedded vision processing. Image formats and color spaces vary when information is interchanged among processing domains. FPGAs provide a flexible, fast and scalable way of converting images using readily available IP cores. This video tutorial from José Alvarez, Video
Image Color Conversion and Formatting Using FPGAs Read More +
Austin, TX – March 19, 2011 – As more and more consumer electronics devices incorporate cameras, embedded vision applications are set to change the way consumers interact with their devices. Augmented reality is one of the most interesting applications, with Sony’s recent release of the game Reality Fighters for the PS Vita portable gaming platform
Reality Fighters for PS Vita Only a Taste of the Potential for Augmented Reality Read More +
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