On Wednesday, October 2, the Embedded Vision Alliance will return to the Boston, Massachusetts region for the third iteration (and second annual East Coast edition) of the Embedded Vision Summit. This free day-long technical educational forum will take place at the Regency Inn and Conference Center in Westford, Massachusetts. The Embedded Vision Summit is designed to:
- Provide engaging, high-quality technical presentations (not sales pitches!) that will inspire engineers to create new and improved products using embedded vision technology
- Offer practical know-how to help engineers incorporate vision capabilities into their designs, and
- Provide opportunities to meet and talk with leading embedded vision technology suppliers and technologists, and see exciting demos of some of the latest technology
Registration for the Embedded Vision Summit East only costs $99, and qualified attendees include engineers (with preference given to system, SoC, and application software engineers working in industry), invited press and analysts, and Alliance Member company representatives. Others (including students) will be admitted on a space-available basis. Space is limited; advance registration is required and early registration is recommended. Submit your registration on the Alliance web site.
The Summit, organized by the Embedded Vision Alliance, will provide a unique opportunity for engineers to learn about the hottest technology in the electronics industry, embedded computer vision, which enables "machines that see and understand." This event's keynote presentation will be 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 system 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. One of these tools enables the automated evaluation of vision algorithm performance over a massive parameter space. The other enables generation of synthetic image content for use in training and testing detection and recognition algorithms.
The event program also includes nearly twenty other "how-to" presentations, divided into two parallel technical tracks, along with demonstrations from nearly twenty Alliance member companies. A detailed agenda of the day's activities, including the technical presentations and their associated presenters and companies, can be found on the Embedded Vision Summit East overview page. Also available for your perusal are presenter biographies, along with more detailed descriptions of the presentations.
Finally, don't forget about the two half-day hands-on workshops sponsored by Embedded Vision Alliance member companies on October 3, the day after the Embedded Vision Summit East:
- From 8:30AM-1:30PM (including an optional 1-hour complimentary lunch), Embedded Vision Alliance members Analog Devices, Avnet Electronics Marketing and BDTI will co-present a workshop exploring hardware and software for image processing and video analytics, featuring the Avnet/Analog Devices Embedded Vision Starter Kit. This workshop is an excellent starting point for vision application developers interested in exploring a wide range of embedded vision applications. The Blackfin Embedded Vision Starter Kit Hands-on Workshop is currently full; email the Alliance to be added to the wait list.
- That same day, from 1:00PM-5:00PM, Alliance members Avnet Electronics Marketing and Xilinx will co-present a workshop introducing SoC application development with a specific focus on embedded vision using the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite to target the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. An OpenCV example will be used to demonstrate how a software implementation of an embedded vision application can be accelerated by building a custom hardware accelerator on the Zynq SoC’s programmable fabric, achieving 1080P60 at 1W power consumption. For more information on the Zynq-7000/VivadoSmarter Vision Design Workshop, including online registration, please see the event page.
Don't delay…register today!
