As I've written many times before, one key indication that embedded vision has gone "mainstream" is its embrace by the technology industry. IC, core, subsystem, software and services suppliers are making substantial development investments, and the resultant products are being purchased in volume by numerous systems companies. But don't misunderstand; ongoing robust academic activity is also key! That critical combination of academia-plus-industry embrace is why on an ongoing basis I closely observe the amount of attention given to embedded vision by various IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) publications. And I continue to be really pleased with what I see.
I'll begin with one editorial example that I can't yet show you, because it's still in process. Last fall, the Alliance partnered with several representatives from member company Texas Instruments to develop an in-depth article on surveillance systems for IEEE Spectrum. That article is currently being finalized, and I look forward to sharing it with you (and re-posting it on the Alliance website) once it's published.
Speaking of "published," to my right as I type these words is a short stack of recent issues of IEEE Computer and IEEE MultiMedia, two of the publications that come with my personal IEEE membership. I've dog-eared them to bookmark articles of particular embedded vision interest, a list that I'll pass along to you below. I encourage you visit the IEEE Computer Society site, along with the sites for its IEEE Computer and IEEE MultiMedia publications, for the articles below, some of which are freely readable and others requiring a modest access fee.
IEEE Computer (October 2013)
- Gesture Technology: Moving Interfaces in a New Direction
- Kinecting to Mathematics Through Embedded Interactions
- Activity Recognition for the Mind: Toward a Cognitive "Quantified Self"
IEEE Computer (November 2013)
- A Case Study of Automated Face Recognition: The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
IEEE Computer (January 2014)
- Scientists: Biometric Systems Need More than Face Recognition
- Augmented Reading: The Present and Future of Electronic Scientific Publications
IEEE Multimedia (October-December 2013)
- Applications of Face Analysis and Modeling in Media Productions
- Depth Sensing for 3DTV: A Survey
- Walking in Colors: Human Gait Recognition Using Kinect and CBIR
- A New Writing Experience: Finger Writing in the Air Using a Kinect Sensor
IEEE Multimedia (January-March 2014)
- Content is Dead…Long Live Content: The New Age of Multimedia-Hard Problems
- Memory-Efficient Image Databases for Mobile Visual Search
- Mobile Photo Recommendation and Logbook Generation Using Context-Tagged Images
- A Multimedia Semantic Retrieval Mobile System Based on HCFGs
- A New Paradigm for Querying Blobs in Vehicular Networks
- Visions of Augmented Cultural Heritage Experience
- Finding the Needle in the Image Stack: Performance Metrics for Big Data Image Analysis
