As a recent writeup in ExtremeTech rightfully notes, the $25-35 price point of the Raspberry Pi board in combination with its impressive capabilities at that cost: Broadcom BCM2835 SoC which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor overclockable to 1 GHz, and a VideoCore IV GPU, and either 256 MBytes or 512 MBytes of DRAM have […]
Wellingborough, U.K. 26 November 2012. In its fifth edition report on the Chinese video surveillance market, IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)) estimated that the market was worth $2.6 billion in 2011, an increase of more than 30 percent over 2010. A key driver of this growth was the network security camera market.
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Back in late September, I told you about Movi.Kanti.Revo, a client-side-rendered, HTML5- and web browser-based, and gesture interface-implemented application co-developed by Cirque du Soleil and Google. For the moment, at least, Movi.Kanti.Revo is only supported on conventional computers (along with a limited set of browsers, at that). However, the following portion of a recent writeup
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Google didn't evolve the project name when incrementing from Android 4.1 (introduced in late June) to the more recent and latest 4.2 release. However, the newest "Jelly Bean" version makes several notable imaging improvements that will be of interest to embedded vision application developers. First off is Photo Sphere, an enhanced version of the traditional
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The image sensor is a key piece of any embedded vision system design, of course. As such, many of you are probably already familiar with the term "Bayer Pattern," which I discussed in some detail in a technical article published last fall. A Bayer Pattern sensor transforms the inherently monochrome light capture process into a
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Wellingborough, U.K. (20 November 2012) — The world market for PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) software is estimated to have more than doubled between 2009 and 2011, according to a new report from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS). However, it remained below $100 million in 2011, with limited awareness identified as the
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Wellingborough, U.K. (19 November 2012) – Analogue security cameras accounted for 87 percent of total camera shipments in the consumer and DIY video surveillance market, according to a recent market report from IMS Research, part of IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS). However, unlike the professional market, the consumer market is not predicted to see a significant revenue
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Speaking of infrared imaging…researchers Georgia Koukiou and Vassilis Anastassopoulos of the University of Patras in Greece recently published (in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics) the results of a study of 20 volunteers to test sobriety (or not) by means of computer algorithms. By doing infrared scans of the volunteers' faces both
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One of the more impressive embedded vision implementations (IMHO) that I've come across, albeit one of the more potentially troubling from a copyright infringement perspective, is Google's book-scanning, de-warping system. As detailed in patent 7,508,978, filed in September 2004 and awarded to the company in March 2009 (with thanks to CNET-via-Slashdot for the summary): Google's
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In this edition of Embedded Vision Insights: Upcoming Events An Embedded Vision Introduction Processor Suppliers Eye Embedded Vision Embedded Vision Community Conversations Embedded Vision in the News LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Colleague, In the previous edition of the Embedded Vision Insights newsletter, I indicated that we'd recently bolstered the amount of published video content
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