Embedded Vision Insights: September 30, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

It's finally here: the week that those of us in the Alliance have been steadily and intensively working toward ever since the conclusion of the mid-April Embedded Vision Summit. In two days, on October 2, the next Embedded Vision Summit, a technical educational forum for product creators interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, will take place in Westford, Massachusetts. One day later, Alliance member companies will hold two half-day hands-on embedded vision workshops. And in parallel, Alliance member representatives will be meeting to (among other things) begin planning the next set of Embedded Vision Summits.

If you've already registered for the Embedded Vision Summit East (and one or both workshops, of course), congratulations! I look forward to seeing and meeting you there. And if you haven't yet registered, especially if you're located (or can travel) to the Boston, MA region, what are you waiting for? Check out the comprehensive (and, I must say, mighty impressive) Embedded Vision Summit agenda, along with the next-day workshops' event pages. Peruse the detailed presentation abstracts, along with the illustrious presenter biographies. And then hit up the registration page without delay, because advance registration is required and space is limited.

I'm really looking forward to the keynote presentation by Mario E. Munich, Vice President of Advanced Development at iRobot. Munich was formerly the CTO of Evolution Robotics, a company focused on the development of key technology primitives for consumer robotics. Appropriately, his talk is entitled "Embedding Computer Vision in Everyday Life." An additional set of special presentations will come from Mike Geertsen, program manager at DARPA, and representatives of two DARPA partner companies. Geertsen, Next Century Corporation's Clark Dornan and SRI International's Jayan Eledath will discuss two general-purpose vision algorithm selection and development tools which the organization and its contractors will soon make widely available on an open source basis as an adjunct of the OpenCV library. Then there are the nearly twenty other "how-to" presentations, along with demonstrations from nearly twenty Alliance member companies…wow!

Embedded Vision Summit East aside, I also want to draw your attention to all of the great new content that's shown up on the site the past two weeks: news writeups, market analysis reports, press releases, blog posts, and discussion forum conversations. Check them out to keep current on embedded vision technology and product developments. 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. And please don't hesitate to let me know how the Alliance can better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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