Year: 2012

Embedded Vision Alliance Conversation with Nik Gagvani of Cernium Corporation

Brian Dipert, Editor-In-Chief of the Embedded Vision Alliance, interviews Nik Gagvani, Chief Technical Officer of Cernium Corporation. They discuss Cernium's technology and product progression from high-end surveillance systems for specific markets to the sub-$300 consumer-tailored Archerfish, how the evolution from computer vision to embedded vision has fundamentally enabled that progression, and Gagvani's predictions of how

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Camera Cognition: Finally, True Facial Recognition

Every time I discuss the topics of "facial recognition" and "digital cameras" in the same breath, Jeff Bier validly corrects me. That's because while cameras nowadays commonly do facial detection, i.e. identifying people in a scene and adjusting exposure, focus and other settings to optimize their digital image reproduction, they don't identify specific individuals… …until

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Online Clothes Shopping: Bodymetrics’ PrimeSense-Enabled Offering

Back in early November, I wrote about Bodymetrics' scanning booth, installed in London's Westfield Stratford shopping mall, which recommends the ideal pair of jeans after you strip to your skivvies and let it scan your bod. Within that same writeup, I also talked about UPcloud, whose product works with your computer webcam to enable surprise-free

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Eye-Tracking Technology: A Tobii Demonstration and Freescale’s Aspiration

In recent weeks, I've discussed Tobii's eye-tracking technology several times, both for its ability to monitor driver attention in vehicles, and to control next-generation operating systems' graphical user interfaces. As I mentioned last week, Tobii demonstrated its Gaze software for Windows 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show, and Engadget got a chance to take it

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The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0: Upgraded Video Capture Steals The (Consumer Electronics) Show

Parrot's first-generation AR.Drone has proven to be (along with quad-rotors from other companies such as Ascending Technologies) a popular platform for implementing autonomous flight and other embedded vision algorithms in both hobbyist and academic research settings. Check out, for example, the following video: Key to the device's market success, among other factors, is its reasonably

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A Living Room (Embedded) Vision: Samsung Brings Image Sensors To The Television

The persistent rumors of an impending Apple-branded television (likely integrating, among other things, the functionality of today's standalone Apple TV STB) seemingly has other consumer electronics manufacturers motivated to get out in front of the folks at One Infinite Loop, judging from the news coming out of Las Vegas. Although Logitech's Google TV experiment wasn't

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A Six-By-Six Pixel Cluster: Fujifilm Take Another Stab At The Image Sensor

As I previously mentioned in a technical article published to the Embedded Vision Alliance site last August, the Bayer Pattern (named after Eastman Kodak's Bryce E. Bayer, its inventor) is by far the most common filter array pattern used with both CCDs and CMOS image sensors. Containing 50% green filters, 25% red filters and 25%

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Embedded Vision For Driver Assistance: An Aftermarket-Enabled Transition, Albeit Via Camera Phone Assimilation?

Government regulation coupled with manufacturer motivation seems to be building a "perfect storm" that's poised to push image sensors and vision processors into automobiles in a big way, specifically for driver-assistance purposes (rear-view augmentation, front-view collision avoidance, lane departure warnings, and the like). That's all well and good for new vehicle makes and models, of

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Microsoft Kinect’s Increasingly Upbeat Fate: Sales, Hardware And Software Updates

Steve Ballmer's CES-officially-opening keynote is under way as I type this, but thanks to the liveblogs of folks such as Engadget and The Verge (not to mention the Microsoft-served live video stream), I'm able to keep up even though I'm not in attendance in Las Vegas. One tidbit that I just saw is particularly relevant

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