Embedded Vision Insights: February 25, 2014 Edition

Dear Colleague,

In the February 11 edition of this newsletter, I told you about the morning keynote presentation planned for the May 29 Embedded Vision Summit West, by Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook and a distinguished professor at New York University. I now have the pleasure of telling you about the event's afternoon keynote presentation. It's by Nathaniel Fairfield, the technical lead on Google's self-driving car team, which you can learn more about by watching the "Self Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan" video on YouTube. LeCun and Fairfield's presentations will respectively address the two foundation themes of the Summit, recognition and autonomy.

The Embedded Vision Summit West, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, will take place  in Santa Clara, California. The "Early Bird" reduced registration fee of $149 is only available through this Friday, so don't delay in registering. This year’s Summit is co-located with the Augmented World Expo (AWE), and Embedded Vision Summit attendees may obtain an AWE Exhibits-Only Pass for only $20, an 80% discount. Just add the AWE Exhibits-Only Pass to your online registration submission for the Embedded Vision Summit. And it's not too early to begin booking your transportation and hotel reservations, either; for assistance in these matters, see the newly launched Summit travel page.

Nearer term, the next Alliance Member Meeting will be held at Qualcomm's corporate headquarters campus in San Diego, CA on March 13. We will be expanding the attendee list for the afternoon portion of the day's program, and have a limited amount of available space for guests who are not affiliated with Alliance Member companies. This will be a unique opportunity to network with Alliance member company representatives, learn about the products and services available to assist you in completing embedded vision-inclusive designs, and evaluate possible Alliance membership for your own company.

Planned afternoon presentations include:

• "Vision-based Navigation Applications: from Planetary Exploration to Consumer Devices" by Larry Matthies, Supervisor in the Computer Vision Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• "Who Watches the Machines Watching You? Regulating Privacy in the Era of Machines That See" by Brian Wassom, Partner and Chair of the Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media Practice Group at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
• "Recent Developments in Khronos Standards for Embedded Vision" by Neil Trevett, President of Khronos, and
• "Forecasting Consumer Adoption of Embedded Vision in Mobile Devices in 2014" by John Feland, PhD, CEO of Argus Insights

You'll also have the opportunity to audition Alliance member companies' technology and product demonstrations during the mid-afternoon break. If you're interested in attending the afternoon portion of the March 13 Alliance Member Meeting, please email your credentials to [email protected] for consideration. Priority will be given to applicants currently working with embedded vision technology. 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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