Embedded Vision Insights: December 18, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." This well-known quote provides the background for my first important announcement. May 29, 2014 is the currently scheduled date for the next Embedded Vision Summit, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, to be held in Santa Clara, California. The end of May may seem a long way away, but we're busily preparing to make the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit West the biggest and best Summit yet!

The Embedded Vision Summit West will be co-located with the Augmented World Expo, and Summit attendees will have the option of also attending the full Augmented World Expo conference or accessing the Augmented World Expo exhibit floor at a discounted price. And preceding the Embedded Vision Summit, on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, Embedded Vision Alliance member companies will present partial- and full-day workshops exploring hardware and software for various embedded vision implementations. Please revisit the event overview page in the coming weeks for more information, such as detailed agendas, keynote, technical tutorial and other presentation details, speaker biographies, and online registration.

Speaking of the Embedded Vision Summit, the steady flow of content coming from October's event in Westford, Massachusetts continues to appear on the Alliance website. Since the publication of the previous newsletter edition, several new demo videos (from Bluetechnix, Cadence and Qualcomm partner Intrinsyc Software) and tutorial videos (from CogniVue, on efficiently computing disparity maps, and Qualcomm, on harnessing heterogeneous computing) have been published, with others queued up to appear in the coming days. I encourage you to take advantage of the upcoming-holiday time off from work to look them (and other site content) over, as a means of bolstering your embedded vision understanding and staying current on technology and product developments.

And speaking of the upcoming holidays, I'll close with another well-known quote, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"…and Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year, as well! This will be the last edition of Embedded Vision Insights for 2013; the next issue will appear in your inbox mid-next month. 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. Whenever you come up with an idea as to how the Alliance can better service your needs, you know where to find me.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

Embedded Vision Summit Technical Presentation: "Lessons Learned: FPGA Prototyping of a Processor-Based Embedded Vision Application," Markus Wloka, Synopsys
Markus Wloka, R&D Director for System-Level Solutions at Synopsys, presents the "Lessons Learned: FPGA Prototyping of a Processor-Based Embedded Vision Application" tutorial within the "Developing Vision Software, Accelerators and Systems" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation covers the steps of building a programmable vision system and highlights the importance of having software-driven tests and using a chain of proven tools and components.

Embedded Vision Summit Product Demonstration: ARM
Akshay Agarwal, North America Ecosystem Director at ARM, demonstrates face detection and image editing algorithms running on the company's Mali GPU core at the October 2013 Embedded Vision Summit East.

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