Embedded Vision Insights: September 4, 2012 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Those of you who perused the Embedded Vision Alliance member page beginning Saturday morning may have already figured out what I'm about to tell the rest of you. I'm happy to announce two new members of the Alliance, Synopsys and VanGogh Imaging. VanGogh Imaging provides affordable and easy to use embedded vision solutions for high volume applications that can use mobile devices to accurately capture, measure, and display objects and scenes in 3D and in real time. And Synopsys' diverse product line encompasses many items with direct embedded vision relevance: embedded processor cores, high-level synthesis and other EDA toolsets, hardware and software prototyping technologies and services, etc. A just-published news writeup provides more details on Synopsys' multiple embedded vision thrusts; stay tuned for a companion writeup on VanGogh Imaging to come later this week.

The other big news is, of course, the Embedded Vision Summit, which will take place in just two weeks (and one day) in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm happy to announce that Professor Rosalind Picard of MIT, the morning keynoter, will be joined by Gary Bradski of the OpenCV Foundation, who delivered the keynote at the July Embedded Vision Alliance Member Summit and will also keynote in the afternoon at the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit. More generally, the Alliance has just published on the main event page a fairly detailed agenda, which will be further fleshed out in the days to come. Alliance member company representatives will present on a diversity of embedded vision topics: applications and algorithms, processors, tools, APIs, design techniques, image sensors, etc. Space is limited and is filling up fast, so don't delay; register today!

Ahead of the Summit, several other events deserve your attention. Tomorrow, Xilinx and iVeia will co-present a webcast in which company representatives will do a teardown of an embedded vision system design based on the Xynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform SoC containing a programmable FPGA fabric and dual ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores. Next Monday through Friday, Jeff Bier (founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance) and Eric Gregori (senior software engineer at BDTI) will co-present a five-session embedded vision tutorial series, discussing image sensors, processors, algorithms, and toolsets. And next Wednesday and Thursday is IMS Research's Touch-Gesture-Motion EMEA conference in London. Click on the links in the preceding sentences for more details on these exciting embedded vision activities, including registration information.

Thank you 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 contact me at any time with your ideas on how the Embedded Vision Alliance website and other resources can more effectively address your needs. And if you know someone who might be interested in receiving this newsletter, please forward this email along with an encouragement to register for his or her own copy in the future.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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