Embedded Vision Insights: April 23, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

It's finally here: the Embedded Vision Summit is later this week (Thursday, to be exact) in San Jose, California. This is a moment that many of us in the Embedded Vision Alliance have been steadily working towards ever since the conclusion of the last (and first) Embedded Vision Summit last September in Boston, Massachusetts. And if you're fearing it's too late to register, don't panic (as Douglas Adams used to say). We recently bumped up the attendance limit, enabling even more of you to participate. So check out the event agenda, ascertain which tracks you plan to sit in on, and submit a registration application right away…before the additional seats fill up, too.

While you're in San Jose, don't forget about the additional embedded vision-themed events that surround the Summit this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Alliance members BDTI, Freescale, and National Instruments will be delivering technical presentations at the DESIGN West conference. And on Friday, Analog Devices, Avnet Electronics Marketing and BDTI will partner to present a half-day embedded vision workshop exploring hardware and software for image processing and video analytics, featuring the Avnet/Analog Devices Embedded Vision Starter Kit.

Summit aside, there's also been a whole lot of great new content added to the Alliance website over the past two weeks: reprints of contributed articles authored by various Alliance member companies and covering gesture interfaces, the Embedded Vision Academy, and vision-centric medical applications, along with a bevy of press releases. And Embedded.com also just published another excellent Alliance-spearheaded piece, on 3D sensor technologies. Although I'm admittedly biased, I think they're all great writeups, and I'm confident you'll agree.

Last but not least, and speaking of press releases, I want to make sure that you know about the Alliance's latest member. Bluetechnix was added to the membership roster subsequent to the recent publication of my new-member summary news writeup. The Austria-based company provides embedded vision hardware and software design services, along with a broad range of standard products. For example, Bluetechnix just released its new line of 3D time-of-flight cameras, featuring the Argos3D-P100 off-the-shelf camera and the Sentis-M100 board-level camera. And the company's name may also be already familiar to you from a recently published demo video taken at the Embedded World show a few months ago. Welcome, Bluetechnix!

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. I welcome your emailed suggestions on what the Alliance can do better, as well as what else the Alliance can do, to better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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