Embedded Vision Insights: July 2, 2015 Edition

Dear Colleague,

I'd like to draw your attention to additional just-published content from May's Embedded Vision Summit. The Alliance's Jeff Bier kicks things off with his presentation "Choosing a Processor for Embedded Vision: Options and Trends." Jeff maps the landscape of processor options for vision applications, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of different processor types. He illuminates important trends in processors for vision processors and associated development tools.

Next is Mario Bergeron, technical marketing engineer at Avnet Electronics Marketing and a highly rated speaker. In "System-Level Design for Embedded Vision with FPGA-based Programmable SoCs," Mario describes a typical development cycle for embedded vision applications, including some of the challenges that developers may encounter. Mario shares his experience and insight working with SoC FPGAs, from building a custom hardware platform to accelerating video and image functions in hardware.

Last but not least is "Implementing Eye Tracking for Medical, Automotive and Headset Applications," a presentation by Dan Isaacs, Director of Smarter Connected Systems at Xilinx, and Robert Chappell, CEO of EyeTech Digital Systems. Dan and Robert detail the design of a portable and wearable eye-tracking system. They introduce the fundamental techniques used for eye tracking and then explore the challenges and innovations of a programmable SoC-based implementation in a cost- and power-constrained system.

While you're on the Alliance website, make sure to check out all the other great content recently published there, such as a report on the late June Image Sensor Auto Conference from Marco Jacobs of videantis. And speaking of events, if you're in the Boston, Massachusetts area on Monday, July 13, consider attending the next meeting of the Boston Imaging and Vision group, taking place in Cambridge at 6 PM. The planned presentation topic is "Making Vision Go Fast and Low Power;" visit the group's website for more information and to RSVP.

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. Please don't hesitate to let me know how the Alliance can better serve your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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