Embedded Vision Insights: March 26, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

By now, I'm hopeful that at least most of you are already aware of the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit, a free day-long technical educational forum to be held on April 25th (less than a month from now) in San Jose, California and intended for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software. If this is the first time you've heard about the Summit, I encourage you to check out the main event page. And if you've heard about the Summit before, but haven't yet registered, I encourage you to do so right away, while attendance spots are still available.

In this edition of Embedded Vision Insights, I'd also like to alert you to additional events surrounding the Summit. On April 17 (and one week ahead of the Summit), for example, Embedded Vision Alliance founder Jeff Bier will be presenting on "Embedded Vision: Giving Mobile Devices the Ability to See and Understand" at the Linley Tech Mobile Conference, in Santa Clara, California. On April 24, the day before the Summit, Alliance member companies BDTI and National Instruments will deliver four embedded vision-themed presentations at the DESIGN West conference. And on April 26, the day after the Summit, BDTI and fellow Alliance members Analog Devices and Avnet Electronics Marketing will offer a half-day embedded vision workshop in San Jose, California exploring hardware and software for image processing and video analytics, and featuring the Avnet/Analog Devices Embedded Vision Starter Kit. See the relevant news writeups below for additional details, including event registration links.

Speaking of "online" and "events", the Alliance (represented by member companies Apical, BDTI, CogniVue, National Instruments and Xilinx) just completed a successful five-day series of online-classes on various interesting embedded vision topics. The presentation slides, audio recordings and chat archives remain available on the Design News website, so if you missed the live deliveries (or if you'd benefit from a revisit), I encourage you to check them out. And speaking of Alliance companies, I'll close with a last-but-not-least acknowledgement of the latest entry (as of April 1) to the member roster: Fidus Systems, an electronic design services company (and Xilinx Premier Design Services Member) with offices in Ottawa and Kitchener, Ontario and San Jose, California. Welcome, Fidus!

Thanks as always for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. I welcome your emailed suggestions on what the Alliance can do better, as well as what else the Alliance can do, to better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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Consumer Electronics Show Product Demonstration: eyeSight Mobile Technologies
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